No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
-Zen Proverb
The Council for Professional Recognition recently published a white paper, "Diversity and Inclusion in Early Care and Education." This paper cites four goals for anti-bias education proposed by Louise Derman-Sparks and Julie Olsen Edwards in their book, Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves:
- Each child will demonstrate self-awareness, confidence, family pride, and positive social identities.
- Each child will express comfort and joy with human diversity; accurate language for human differences; and deep, caring human connections.
- Each child will increasingly recognize unfairness, have language to describe unfairness, and understand that unfairness hurts.
- Each child will demonstrate empowerment and the skills to act, with others or alone, against prejudice and/or discriminatory actions.
Reflecting on Anti-bias Education in Action DVD and Guidebook |
Reflecting on Anti-bias Education in Action: The Early Years features vignettes of anti-bias strategies in early childhood classrooms interspersed with teachers reflecting on their practice. By taking viewers into diverse early childhood classrooms, the film seeks to demonstrate the importance of teacher reflection on identity, context, and practice in anti-bias education and provides a much-needed resource for teacher education and professional development.
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Comments (2)
Displaying All 2 CommentsMadera, United States
Anti-Bias Education should be a teaching element in all classrooms. Teachers, themselves, should have experience with the concepts of Anti-Bias Education during their own higher level teacher preparation. My own life as a professional in early learning and as a involved community individual has benefited from the awareness and understanding of ABE.
University Christian Children's Center
South Miami, Florida, United States
I am Hispanic and only once experienced discrimination not to mention other times when in mingle groups saw rolling of the eyes, however I know who I am and did not affected me. I am so, so very happy that Early Education is including Anti-Bias in their curriculum. I am a Director of early education program and have children of various cultures and backgrounds, and I love them all. Our program makes every effort possible to make every children feel no different than other. Please, Please keep working on this issue. We are racing a new generation and early learning can make a world of difference. Thank you for Caring.
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