Abstract

The educational preschool communities in Chile live in a multicultural condition on a daily basis where inclusive pedagogical practices are highly relevant. Hence, it is necessary to understand the deployment of these within kindergarten and to visualize the perception that families and teachers have towards inclusive education in terms of the strategies and pedagogical resources used in the classrooms. Additionally, it is important to understand how families feel about the kindergarten and in what way they are included in the educational, collaborative, and strategic planning which generates the institutional inclusive improvement. A qualitative methodology is used in order to apply interviews concerned to the Inclusion Index to the participants. The results allow integrating the most relevant pedagogical findings within the growing crossroads of migratory identities and cultural diversity. Nowadays, there is still a lack of understanding regarding inclusion.

Keywords: Inclusive education; Inclusion Index; qualitative methodology; perception; pedagogical practices; preschool.