Inclusion in early childhood education and care: A literature review of best practice

This review was undertaken to identify from a literature review elements of best practice for inclusion in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in Australia. While it has identified a large number of documents which address the subject of inclusion, it has found many limitations in the literature, with significant gaps, and only a relatively light coverage of inclusion in ECEC, as opposed to schools. Practice in the literature is also variable, and is exacerbated by the extent to which much research is small scale and context‐specific (especially with regard to children with particular forms of need), but these findings are generalised well beyond this. Sitting over this are fundamental differences in approaches to inclusion.