Here is our chance to get to know you and learn about your culture, values and what makes your family unique.
Share with us something that represents the beliefs, customs, values, or rituals within a culture or religion. All cultures are represented by some common core beliefs and customs, as well as the individual nature of families who identify with certain cultures. Some examples include: a cross, a menorah, a picture or statues of Mother Mary or Buddha, a tartan cloth, a flag, food, clothing or any other symbol from any cultural tradition, ceremony, or daily life. But they can also be stories that have been passed down about your family, things that you enjoy doing as a family, etc. This is another part of what makes YOU you. As you would want to know about the children and families you either serve or will be serving, we want to know a little more about you.
Check-in Question 1. Post a picture and write a response or share a video, of you sharing a particular item to represent a tradition or a connection in your family a special celebration, a connection in your family. etc. This is all about you and please pick something that you want to share with all of us and that will provide us an opportunity to get to know you a little better.
Then answer ALL of the following questions:
Explain why you chose the item/memory/connection
Explain what it means to you and for you
Explain how this item links the past and present
Explain how this activity would help to connect to the families that you will serve in your preschool or school age environment
Introduction Content Question
Question 2. Identify the four anti bias goal and summary of each. Discuss which Anti-bias goal appears to be the hardest to implement in classrooms. This could either be video or written.
See rubric below. Scroll to the bottom of this page and click on Reply in order to respond to this Discussion.
If posting a video be sure to embed it using canvas studio.
Anti- Bias Education
In order for children to receive all these rights, their society, their families, and those responsible for their care and education must work to provide everything that each child needs to flourish. A worldwide community of educators shares the vision toward which anti-bias education strives. They adapt its goals and principles to the needs of children and families in their specific contexts. In this course the five equity filter we focus on include
Socio- Economic Status-
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Diverse Abilities
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Gender and Sexual Orientation
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Family Structure
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Culture- inclusive or race, ethnicity, language, religion
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Vision of Anti-Bias
The heart of anti-bias work is a vision of a world in which all children are able to blossom, and each childÂ’
s particular abilities and gifts are able to flourish. In this world:
All children and families have a sense of belonging and experience affirmation of their identities and cultural ways of being.
All children have access to and participate in the education they need to become successful, contributing members of society.
The educational process engages all members of the program or school in joyful learning.
Children and adults know how to respectfully and easily live, learn, and work together in diverse and inclusive environments.
All families have the resources they need to fully nurture their children.
All children and families live in safe, peaceful, healthy, comfortable housing and neighborhoods.
This vision of anti-bias education also reflects the basic human rights described in the United Nations (1989) Declaration of the Rights of the Child:
The right to survival.
The right to develop to the fullest.
The right to protection from harmful influences, abuse, and/or exploitation.
The right to participate fully in family, cultural, and social life.
The Four Core Goals of Anti-Bias Education
Goal 1: Each child will demonstrate self-awareness, confidence, family pride, and positive social identities.
Goal 2: Each child will express comfort and joy with human diversity; accurate language for human differences; and deep, caring human connections.
Goal 3: Each child will increasingly recognize unfairness, have language to describe unfairness, and understand that unfairness hurts.
Goal 4: Each child will demonstrate empowerment and the skills to act, with others or alone, against prejudice and/or discriminatory actions.
The anti-bias approach began in the 1980s. Louise Derman-Sparks and the A.B.C.TaskForce were a group of educators in the United States who got together to look at a curriculum that would help children learn about diversity. In other parts of the world similar work was being done to address different aspects of diversity and to challenge bias. Based on all this work Australian authors Barbara Creaser and Elizabeth Dau came up with the term ‘Anti-Bias Approach’.An anti-bias approach
is inclusive in that it recognizes, understands, appreciates and draws on all differences and similarities
affirms all children, their families and their experiences and encourages everyone to value and respect differences
fosters the development of positive self-concepts•is flexible and open -creating spaces for different perspectives and worldviews
allows different cultural perspectives to enter into and inform every discussion, subject, activity, event and task
is proactive -it assumes that bias exists and addresses all biases
challenges any form of prejudice, stereotyping, bias and discrimination•encourages us to unlearn prejudices•encourages us to look at what we do and say and at what we don’t do and don’t say