ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the need for practitioners to observe and reflect on some of the benefits and challenges of working with young children from other cultures. It also focuses on particular areas of recommended practice that can be established to support all children and particularly those from other cultures. The chapter explains around the need to support children's learning through an 'enabling environment' that also values the need to recognise children as democratic people who have the right to make choices on matters that affect them. The concept of the 'enabling environment' was first adopted in the Early Years Foundation Stage, which was established by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) in 2008. E. Maagero and B. Simonsen suggest that practitioners should use diversity as a resource rather than it being used as a way to sort or classify particular groups of children.
