ECEBCs_Statement_of_Inclusion_2024
There’s been a lot of discussion and participation by some of you over the past year about Inclusion. ECEBC has recently put out a position paper on this very topic. I’ve uploaded for your convenience to read, just click link above.
Opening statement from ECEBC:
We are grateful for the guidance, collaboration, and comments provided by the many stakeholders who participated in this creation.. This position paper is a visionary document. This position paper joins families, activists, and scholars in asserting that inclusion is an urgent political concern in early childhood and the broader global community. ECEBC acknowledges that an inclusive society must first disrupt dominant and social constructions of what it means to be human that reflect idealized images (Kafher, 2013). For inclusion to thrive, we must first refuse predetermined hierarchies based on ability, body shape and form, chromosome composition, gender, race and other forms of human categorization.