Janmohamed – studying early childhood educators

Families One of the important things that has come from the, my research around diversity and inclusion is that when we think about that concept in Early Childhood, it includes a lot of different types of identities like immigrant status, English as a second language, sometimes lone parent families, but rarely does the difference around family construct come up.

So, in my particular area of research, I started out looking at same-sex parents and their kids in early childhood. What I came to learn is that it goes far beyond just same-sex couples. It can also include people who are bisexual, there are more ‘trans’ people having children, and I think that in Early Childhood training, we have a responsibility around understanding the differences in different families in Canada, and also about how our own Early Childhood practice may be impacted on all families, including those kinds of families.