Offers practical guidance on confronting and eliminating barriers of prejudice, misinformation, and bias and provides tips for helping staff and children respect each other, themselves, and all people. Individual chapters focus on culture and language, racial identity, family structures, gender identity, economic class, different abilities, holidays, and more.
Record details
ISBN:9781938113574
ISBN:1938113578
Physical Description:viii, 203 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm. print
Edition:Second edition, revised & updated.
Publisher:Washington, DC : National Association for the Education of Young Children, [2020]
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Anti-bias education and why it matters -- Constructing and understanding social identities and attitudes: the lifelong journey -- Building an anti-bias education program: curriculum principles and the learning environment -- Building an anti-bas education program: clarifying and brave conversations with children -- Building an anti-bias education program: relationships with families and among teachers and staff -- Fostering children's cultural identities: valuing all cultures -- Learning about cultural diversity and fairness: exploring differences and similarities -- Learning about racialized identities and fairness -- Learning about gender diversity and fairness -- Learning about economic class and fairness -- Learning about different abilities and fairness -- Learning about who makes up a family and fairness.