Early Childhood Inclusion Classroom as a Caring Community: Perspectives of Mothers of Color

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Four
  In Roundtable Session: Whole Families, Whole Strategies, Whole Communities (Table 13)

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to co-construct the meaning of inclusion with mothers of color who have children with dis/abilities to disrupt ableism and racism existing in early childhood educational settings by using qualitative methods such as narrative inquiry and Video-Cued Ethnography. Findings suggest that mothers valued a caring community within an inclusion classroom, and they discussed essential components – the role of teachers, children, and the environment – for the inclusion classroom to work. In this paper, I will focus on two key scenes that mothers mentioned the most during a focus group interview to provide mothers’ perceptions of the inclusion classroom as a caring community using Dis/Crit as a theoretical lens.

Author

• Sunmin Lee, Texas State University
  Presenting Author