Facilitator: Marc Battle, Early Childhood Education Instructor, Red River College
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Workshop Description:
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin
For almost 50 years, our profession has embraced the belief of full inclusion for people with disabilities in our classrooms and communities. We have accepted the fact that this is a human rights phenomenon and we were there at the beginning opening our programs to children who were often put into medical programs instead of child care programs. We provided a model for the world to see that people with and without disabilities can work and live together. So 50 years in, how are we doing? Sure we use all the right words with regards to disabilities but do we have the right actions?
This workshop will look at Inclusion through the lens of Jean Vanier and his work with L’Arche and see if there are some lessons for us to revise our own philosophy of inclusion for the children that we care for. We will also look at how we could provide employment opportunities for people with disabilities within child care; thus providing role models for everyone in the centre.
November 8, 2018
1:00 PM
Gymnasium | Murphys Community Centre | 200 Richmond St, Charlottetown, PE C1A 1J2