Just some of the cultural backdrop to this new document is provided by:
Globalisation, and the increasingly fluid movement of ideas, people and approaches
across cultures and continents
Early childhood educators needing to develop the capacities and skills to work with
diversity, and the difference and challenges it can generate in their work
The need to find ways for a diversity of pedagogical approaches to thrive within an
increasingly multidisciplinary approach to early years education
The need for practitioners to work with the specific cultural context of children’s lives
and the communities in which they live them
The need to engage with current social and political issues, and how they affect children,
and practitioners’ work with children.