ECA Podcast Series

What are inclusion support professionals? What role do they play in early childhood education and care context? This final episode of the series will look at the vital role inclusion support professionals play in supporting early childhood services and communities.

Educators can use many resources and tools to support educators in developing solid and inclusive practices. In this episode, we will discuss how educators can ensure they are utilising their available resources and tools.

Our communities are vital to inclusion. In this episode, we will be looking at ways early childhood professionals can build partnerships with their communities by engaging in inclusive practice.

Co-regulation is critical for supporting young children. What is co-regulation, and how can educators use this to support children feeling a strong sense of belonging? In this episode, we will discuss how educators can use co-regulation as a practical strategy to promote inclusion with the children they are working with.

Educators understand the importance of play within an early childhood context, but what about play and inclusion? In this episode, we will look at ways early childhood professionals can use play and play materials to promote inclusion.

Following our previous episode, educators play a significant role in ensuring families, children and their colleagues feel a sense of belonging if English is not their first language. In this episode, we will discuss practical ways to ensure everyone feels they belong.

Within Australia 24.8 per cent of the population speak a language other than English at home. This, consequently, often creates a communication barrier within early learning contexts for children, families and teams, including the way relationships are established. What methods can be put in place to remove this barrier and foster positive and respectful relationships within our learning communiti...

In this episode, we will answer the question, what does it mean to make ethical decisions in our everyday practice, and how does this support an inclusive approach? Through discussions and reflections from lived experience, educators will be invited to consider what ethics and inclusion means to them.

We all know there is increasing pressure on early childhood educators to ensure they are looking after their health and wellbeing and those of the children in their care. How has the high demand in the early childhood sector impacted our understanding of inclusive practice? What practical strategies can we use to ensure we are working together to continue to be inclusive within our everyday practi...

In this episode, we will look closely at how exclusion impacts families, educators and children accessing and engaging in early childhood education and care services.

This first episode will examine what inclusion in the early childhood context means. We will consider some of the most common barriers preventing inclusion in early childhood education and care.

Throughout this series, we have covered a number of different topics.  In this episode Adam and Jo will discuss how diversity, closing the gap, trauma-informed practice, amplifying the voice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, this year's NRW theme Be Brave. Make Change can be contextualized and used in everyday practice.

This episode will look at what it means to Be Brave.  Make Change in the context of early childhood education and care settings.  Everyone is on their own journey of reconciliation, this year's National Reconciliation Week theme provides us with the perfect opportunity to move forward in our reconciliation journey by reflecting on our own biases, addressing racism, and tackle the unfinis...

This episode will look at the significant role early childhood professionals play in uplifting cultural leaders.  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children play a significant and critical role in the future of reconciliation in Australia. Educators play a vital role in providing them with opportunities to be a part of a community of learners that supports and fosters their ability to sha...

This episode will unpack the ongoing impact trauma has had and continues to have on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, families and children.  Over the past few years, there has been a greater awareness regarding understanding trauma-informed practice, and how it can be used to support the development and complex behaviours in infants and young children.  Adam and Jo will...

Today, we will closely look at what Closing the Gap is and its relevance within the early childhood education and care context.  Outcomes three and four of the Closing the Gap initiative identify the importance of the early years and the significance of quality early childhood education and care in reaching Closing the Gap targets.  To implement these effectively, we need to recognise th...

Fostering respect and diversity within early childhaood services is a significant part of understanding and respecting diversity, but how do you sit with discomfort if you have values that differ from your colleagues? This episode will explore how to sit with discomfort and unpack what it means to embrace diversity within our teams.