Inclusive Education in Early Childhood Education Through Storytelling

Abstract

Storytelling is an oral or written narration that brings together a series of important characteristics that are of great help in early childhood education classrooms. Thanks to these stories, values such as sensitivity, companionship, imagination, and respect help to normalise and understand issues that will be dealt with in society in the future. For this reason, this chapter introduces the theme of inclusive education using storytelling, since nowadays all early childhood education classrooms educate children in different physical, mental, and cultural conditions. The objective was to design a project for the promotion of reading that deals with diversity in the early childhood education classroom. This proposal is oriented towards children's literature based on inclusive education with the aim of using literature in an educational way to work on diversity in the classroom. From a perspective based on respect, acceptance, and companionship, the authors will use the story “The Pink Monster” in the classroom.