Transatlantic Forum on Inclusive Early Years (2015), Multilingualism, Identity and Diversity in the Early Years, Sixth meeting, Washington DC, July 8-10

The Transatlantic Forum on Inclusive Early Years, a 3-year project convened by the King Baudouin Foundation in partnership with several European and American foundations, aims to explore policies and programs supporting the early childhood development of children from migrant and low-income families in Europe and the United States. The Forum brings together policy-makers, practitioners and academics for each of its twice-annual meetings. Each meeting focuses on a specific theme, and is organized by the King Baudouin Foundation, the VBJK Centre for Innovation in the Early Years, and the Migration Policy Institute.

This is the report of the TFIEY meeting of 2015, focused on diversity and multilingualism in ECEC settings.

The main question was how to balance colour blindness, denying the many disadvantages of children from vulnerable backgrounds, and reductionism, where children are reduced to the background of their parents, and to develop educational policies that embrace diversity.

Focus of the publication:

- inclusion;

- multilingualism in ECEC;

- families/children with vulnerable background