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Bachelor of Early Childhood Education and Care (Birth-5): ECSFC201A Diverse Australia: Equity and Diversity

Prescribed and Recommended Texts

The anti-bias approach in early childhood (2020) - Book by Red Ruby Scarlet
Diversity and difference in childhood : issues for theory and practice (2016) - eBook and book by Kerry H. Robinson; Criss Jones-Diaz
The little red yellow black book : an introduction to indigenous Australia (2018) - eBook and book by Bruce Pascoe

The books below are used in the weekly readings:

Newspapers

Readings

Anderson, L., Gatwiri, K., Riley, L., & Townsend-Cross, M. (2020). 9 tips teachers can use when talking about racism. The Conversation.
https://theconversation.com/9-tips-teachers-can-use-when-talking-about-racism-140837
Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority. (2022). The Disability Discrimination Act: What do children’s education and care services need to know? [Information sheet].
https://www.acecqa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2022-09/DDA_InfoSheet_ProvidersStaff.pdf
Australian Government Department of Education. (2022). Belonging, being & becoming: The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia (V2.0). Australian Government Department of Education for the Ministerial Council.
https://www.acecqa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-01/EYLF-2022-V2.0.pdf
Australian Government. (2017). Multicultural Australia: United, strong, successful..
https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about-us/our-portfolios/multicultural-affairs/about-multicultural-affairs/our-statement
Australian Human Rights Commission. (2016). Building belonging: A toolkit for early childhood educators on cultural diversity and responding to prejudice.
https://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/education/building-belonging-toolkit-early-childhood-educators-cultural-diversity-and
Australian Human Rights Commission. (2016). Responding to difficult questions about racial identity and cultural diversity.
https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/buildingbelonging_Responding_to_Comments.pdf
Australian Institute of Family Studies. (2022). LGBTIQA+ glossary of common terms: CFCA Resource sheet.
https://aifs.gov.au/sites/default/files/publication-documents/22-02_rs_lgbtiqa_glossary_of_common_terms_0.pdf
Baxter, J. (2015, May). Child care and early childhood education in Australia: Research summary [Fact Sheet]. Australian Institute of Family Studies.
https://aifs.gov.au/publications/child-care-and-early-childhood-education-australia
Blaise, M. & Taylor, A. (2012). Using queer theory to rethink gender equity in early childhood education. YC: Young Children, 67(1), 88-98.
Blank, J. (2012). Aesthetic education in the early years: Exploring familiar and unfamiliar personal-cultural landscapes. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 13(1), 50-62.
https://doi.org/10.2304/ciec.2012.13.1.50
Buchori, S., & Dobinson, T. (2015). Diversity in teaching and learning: Practitioners' perspectives in a multicultural early childhood setting in Australia. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 40(1), 71-79.
https://doi.org/10.1177/183693911504000110
Candlewick Press. (2013, January 25). This is our house by Michael Rosen [Video]. Vimeo.
https://vimeo.com/58214461
Central Vancouver Island Multicultural Society. (n.d.). Cultural competence self-assessment checklist. Colorado Education Initiative.
http://www.coloradoedinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/cultural-competence-self-assessment-checklist.pdf
Clarke, P. (2011). Learning English as an additional language in the early years (birth to six years). Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority.
https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/documents/earlyyears/eyaddlangresource.pdf
Community Child Care Victoria. (2011). Exploring celebrations in children’s services. Community Child Care.
https://www.acecqa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-01/ExploringCelebrationsInChildrensServices.PDF
Community Door. (2016, March 14). Embracing, embedding and expressing cultural diversity in early childhood [Video]. YouTube.
https://youtu.be/bdY6L1sbPnM
Darrow, A. (2011). Early childhood special music education. General Music Today, 24(2), 28-30.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1048371310385329
Derman-Sparkes, L., & Olsen Edwards. J.O. (2010). Anti-bias education for young children and ourselves. National Association for the Education of Young Children.
http://www.antibiasleadersece.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/what-is-ABE-derman-sparks.pdf
Durie, J. (2004). Whiteness in focus. In R. Leonard (Ed.), A fair go: Some issues of social justice in Australia (pp. 157-168). Common Ground.
Early Childhood Australia & Reconciliation Australia. (2018). Embed, enable and strive: A stretch reconciliation action plan for Early Childhood Australia January 2018 – December 2020.
http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ECA-RAP_2018-20.pdf
Early Childhood Australia. (2016). Code of ethics [Brochure].
http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ECA-COE-Brochure-web-2019.pdf
ECA Learning Hub. (2012, July 2). TAPS NQS PLP: Cultural competency: Part 1 of 3 [Video]. YouTube.
https://youtu.be/_wgwEt5pV8k
Education Standards Board. (2020, August). Creating policies and procedures. Government of South Australia.
https://esb.sa.gov.au/resources/policies-and-procedures-early-childhood-services
Exley, B. (2007). Meanings emerging in practice for linguistically and culturally diverse students: An early years multiliteracies project. International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, 3(3), 101-113.

The Gender Centre Inc.
https://gendercentre.org.au/
Grieshaber, S., & Miller, M. (2008). Being white: What does it mean, and what has it got to do with working with young children? Every Child, 14(1), 24-25.
Gunn, A. C., & Surtees, N. (2011). Matching parents' efforts: How teachers can resist heteronormativity in early education settings. Early Childhood Folio, 15(1), 27-34.
Guo, K. (2015). Teacher knowledge, child interest and parent expectation: Factors influencing multicultural programs in an early childhood setting. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 40(1), 63-70.
https://doi.org/10.1177/183693911504000109
Hawkins, K. (2014). Looking forward, looking back: Framing the future for teaching for social justice in early childhood education. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 39(3), 121-128.
https://doi.org/10.1177/183693911403900315
Hawkins, K. (2014). Teaching for social justice, social responsibility and social inclusion: A respectful pedagogy for twenty-first century early childhood education. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 22(5), 723-738.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2014.969085
Janmohamed, Z. (2010). Queering early childhood studies: Challenging the discourse of developmentally appropriate practice. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 56(3), 304-318.
Kennedy, N., & Hellen, M. (2010). Transgender children: More than a theoretical challenge. Graduate Journal of Social Science, 7(2), 25-43.
The Koori Mail.
http://www.koorimail.com/
Latimore, J. (2016, August 1). Pauline Hanson: Please explain! - a hard-hitting expose of history repeated. The Guardian Australian Edition.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/01/pauline-hanson-please-explain-a-hard-hitting-expose-of-history-repeated
Lohoar, S., Butera, N., & Kennedy, E. (2014). Strengths of Australian Aboriginal cultural practices in family life and child rearing. CFCA Paper (25). Australian Institute of Family Studies.
https://aifs.gov.au/cfca/publications/strengths-australian-aboriginal-cultural-practices-family-life-and-child-r
Lopez Atkinson, S. (2017). Possum skin pedagogy: A guide for early childhood practitioners. FKA Children’s Services Inc
https://fka.org.au/cms_uploads/docs/possum-skin-pedagogy--a-guide-for-early-childhood-practitioners--journeys-and-outcomes.pdf
Lui, N. (2015, June 3). Nakkiah Lui: It's not racism that Australia needs to get rid of; it's the privilege of whiteness. Junkee.

Matters, P. (2008). Gifted education: Debunking the myths. Professional Educator, 7(2), 6-7.
Mayes, K. (n.d.). Why I love Australia activity notes. Scholastic.
Miller, M., & Petriwskyj, A. (2013). New directions in intercultural early education in Australia. International Journal of Early Childhood, 45(2), 251-266.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13158-013-0091-4
Minus18.
https://www.minus18.org.au/
Mylor Primary. (2016, April 24). Collecting colours [Video]. YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17T3L4q9MlQ
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. (2015). Starting strong IV: Monitoring quality in early childhood education and care. OECD Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264233515-en
Reconciliation Australia. (2022). Australian Reconciliation Barometer.
https://www.reconciliation.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Australian-Reconciliation-Barometer-2022.pdf
Robinson, K. H. (2005). 'Queerying' gender: Heteronormativity in early childhood education. Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 30(2), 19-28.
Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care. (2020). Early childhood.
https://www.snaicc.org.au/policy-and-research/early-childhood/
Stonehouse, A. (2012). Cultural competence – stories about work in progress. NQS PLP e-Newsletter, (42).
https://studylib.net/doc/8323524/cultural-competence%E2%80%94stories-about-work-in-progress
United Nations Human Rights. (2015). Convention on the Rights of the Child.
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CRC.aspx
Uluru Statement. (2017). Uluru Statement from the Heart.
https://ulurustatement.org/the-statement/
Vuckovic, A. (2004, January). Understanding diversity through music and song. Victorian Journal of Music Education 2004/2006, 45-52.
Weston, R., & Qu, L. (2014). Trends in family transitions, forms and functioning: Essential issues for policy development and legislation. Family Matters (95), 76-84.
https://aifs.gov.au/publications/family-matters/issue-95/trends-family-transitions-forms-and-functioning
Wheeler, C. (n.d.). Teacher notes: Fair skin black fella. Magabala Books.
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0092/5043/9268/files/Fair_Skin_Black_Fella_Teacher_Notes.pdf?2356
MacNaughton, G., & Davis, K. (2001). Beyond 'othering': Rethinking approaches to teaching young Anglo-Australian children about Indigenous Australians. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2(1), 83-93.
https://doi.org/10.2304/ciec.2001.2.1.10
Youth Research Centre. (2015). A determined advocate: Learning from Elizabeth Dau in early childhood. Occasional Paper. University of Melbourne.
https://education.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/1696890/Occasional_paper_-_Elizabeth_Dau_Final_web_version.pdf
Zakin, A. (2012). Hand to hand: Teaching tolerance and social justice one child at a time. Childhood Education, 88(1), 3-13.