Cultural Awareness and Competence in Early Childhood Education Care

Running Head: Cultural Awareness and Competence
Early Childhood Education
Care
Report
System04104
5/22/2019

Cultural Awareness and Competence
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction.........................................................................................................................2
2. Requirement of Cultural awareness and competence as an early childhood teacher.........2
3. Need of Professional conduct and Ethical Considerations for a childhood teacher...........3
4. Cultural awareness and competence in early childhood teacher........................................4
4.1 Need of Cultural competence...........................................................................................4
5. Cultural awareness Practise and protocols with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Families......................................................................................................................................5
5.1 Cultural Protocols.............................................................................................................5
5.2 Adoption of Protocols during Cultural competence and Relationship Building..............5
5.3 Seeking Permission from the community people.............................................................6
5.4 Priority to other culture or community and respect to their traditions and thinking........6
6. Professional and ethical considerations for establishing relationship with these families. 6
7. Conclusion..........................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8

Cultural Awareness and Competence
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1. Introduction
Cultural awareness and cultural competence is the key factor in providing best
childcare education to the children as it enables them to face the implications of cultural
diversity and various other issues related to cultural factors. For a teacher, it is essential that
how well a teacher guide and educates the children about the culture awareness and its
importance in life. Cultural awareness helps the students to become more cultural
competence. The cultural competence in teacher enables him to develop a strong
understanding among children to be respectful and open to different cultural perspectives.
The cultural competence requires a string power and skills of building relationship with
people. This report shows the importance of Cultural awareness and competence in childcare
education. This report shows the importance of building relationship for providing cultural
awareness and competence in childcare education in Indigenous areas in Australia.
2. Requirement of Cultural awareness and competence
as an early childhood teacher
The essential requirement in culture awareness and competence is building strong
relationship with people. Apart from this, some other requirements are discussed below:
Relationship Building: Relationship building is the fundamental and key approach in
cultural awareness. However, before building a relationship with people or students in the
classroom, it is necessary to understand the expectations and attitudes of every student and
their approach towards the culture. For a teacher, communication with people about the
culture and its importance in society is necessary. The teacher can educate the children how
they can respect the diversity and how different type of people have different thoughts in our
society. The teacher can take the help of different range of cultures and their important
traditions and thinking about the society and people.
Understanding the Expectations of Indigenous people: Understanding the
expectations of children, especially in indigenous areas is another crucial thing and key
requirement behind cultural competence. However, primary cultural competence is the
elementary principles for developing trust, fairness, social justice, quality, and respect for
other people (Hoare, 2013).