| TERM | DEFINITION |
|---|---|
| Access | is providing a wide range of activities and environments for every child by removing barriers and offering multiple ways to promote learning and development. |
| Early childhood education and care services | includes preschool, kindergarten, school, outside school hours care, centre-based long day care, family day care, mobiles, Multifunctional Aboriginal Children’s Services, occasional care, and in-home care services. |
| Every child | is used in the NQS when it is intended to suggest an inclusive approach. It implies that all children have the same opportunity regardless of their age, gender, background, or abilities. |
| Inclusion | means that every child has access to, participates meaningfully in, and experiences positive outcomes from early childhood education and care programs. |
| Participation | means using a range of approaches to promote engagement in play and learning activities and a sense of belonging for every child. |
| Supports | refer to broader aspects of the system such as professional learning, incentives for inclusion and opportunities for communication and collaboration among families and professionals to assure high-quality inclusion. |
| NQS | National Quality Standards |
| QA | Quality Area |
| EYLF | Early Years Learning Framework |
| Diversity | means the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders and sexual orientation |
| Assimilation | is the act of being absorbed, understanding, or taking in, the ideas, language, culture and way of 'being' of another and adopting this in practice. |
| Exclusion | As a reversal to inclusion, exclusion demonstrates a society that has separated a group, body or person from the networks, connections, access, opportunities and assistance that remains available to the majority body. |
| Segregation | is the process of separating those who are typically in the minority group, from those who are in the majority group. |
| Integration | This is the process of incorporating minority groups or new people or groups into the social structure of society as an inclusionary goal. |
| Reconciliation | reconciliation is about strengthening relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous peoples, for the benefit of all Australians. |
| Cultural Capacity | is a joint effort between building cultural competency, awareness and cultural safety that is an evolving, dynamic self-model addressing the learning that occurs over time. |
| ECA | Early Childhood Australia |
| Code of Ethics | sets aside guidelines for those working with children and families in early childhood education settings |
| UN Convention on the Rights of a Child | The United Nations created the human rights treaty for children over 30 years ago which developed an international agreement on the rights of childhood, helping to transform the lives of children around the world. |
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