You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Here is a 2 minute video that demonstrates the power of gender stereotypes.
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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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Displaying All 2 CommentsWorking Group on Men in ECE
Kaaawa, HI, United States
Both teachers are femaie, 97% of the early care and education teacher workforce is femaie, and the profession and socieloy on the whole do not seem to view that as a concern. Gender identity begins at the age of two years old. Let's start first with ourselves. We need gender balance in our teacher workforce. Men need women. Women need men. Children need both.
For more go to the Working Group on Men in ECE. https://www.facebook.com/WorldForumFoundation/posts/10153964344973343
CSBC
Denver, CO, United States
So lets put these two issues together: gender stereotypes and the anti-bias curriculum. What are programs supposed to do when they conflict? Many minority groups have far more rigid gender roles and expectations than mainstream Americans or Europeans. When a father says to a teacher, "I do not want my boys playing in the dress-up area", what is the teacher supposed to do? I had an argument with an African American mother who told her daughter to stop climbing in the tree. When I protested, she responded, "girls don't do that".
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