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Title: Far from ideal : everyday experiences of mothers and early childhood professionals negotiating an inclusive early childhood experience in the Australian context
Related: Topics in early childhood special education, Vol. 28, Issue 1, p.18-30
DOI: 10.1177/0271121407313525
Publisher: Sage
Date: 2008
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 130300 Specialist Studies in Education
Author/Creator: Grace, Rebekah
Author/Creator: Llewellyn, Gwynnyth
Author/Creator: Wedgwood, Nikki
Author/Creator: Fenech, Marianne
Author/Creator: McConnell, David
Description: Using narrative interviews underpinned by an ecocultural framework, this Australian study investigated the experiences of 39 mothers of children with disabilities and 27 staff members from the early childhood services which these children attended. The data highlight serious limitations of current government policy and provisions in Australia to facilitating the inclusion of children with disabilities into mainstream children's services. The small number of successful inclusions evident in this study appears to be in spite of current government policy and may be attributed more to staff personnel. This article concludes by calling for policy change that actively facilitates the successful inclusion of children with disabilities into generalist early childhood services.
Description: 13 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 130300 Specialist Studies in Education
Subject Keyword: families
Subject Keyword: mothers
Subject Keyword: inclusion
Subject Keyword: policy issues
Subject Keyword: qualitative inclusion
Subject Keyword: teachers
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Institute of Early Childhood

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/77764
Identifier: ISSN:0271-1214
Identifier: mq-rm-2007010757
Language: eng
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