Full Description
Becoming a skilled anti-bias teacher is a journey. With this volume's practical guidance, you'll grow in your ability to identify, confront, and eliminate barriers of prejudice, misinformation, and bias about specific aspects of personal and social identity. Most important, you'll find tips for helping staff and children learn to respect each other, themselves, and all people. Over the last three decades, educators across the nation and around the world have gained a wealth of knowledge and experience in anti-bias work. The result is a richer and more nuanced articulation of what is important in anti-bias education. Revolving around four core goals—identity, diversity, justice, and activism—individual chapters focus on culture and language, racial identity, family structures, gender identity, economic class, different abilities, and more.
Contents
Foreword: Welcome to the Journey
Introduction: A Few Words About This Book
Chapter 1: Anti‑Bias Education and Why It Matters
Chapter 2: Constructing and Understanding Social Identities and Attitudes: The Lifelong Journey
Chapter 3: Building an Anti‑Bias Education Program: Curriculum Principles and the Learning Environment
Chapter 4: Building an Anti‑Bias Education Program: Clarifying and Brave Conversations with Children
Chapter 5: Building an Anti‑Bias Education Program: Relationships with Families and Among Teachers and Staff
Chapter 6: Fostering Children's Cultural Identities: Valuing All Cultures
Chapter 7: Learning About Cultural Diversity and Fairness: Exploring Differences and Similarities
Chapter 8: Learning About Racialized Identities and Fairness
Chapter 9: Learning About Gender Diversity and Fairness
Chapter 10: Learning About Economic Class and Fairness
Chapter 11: Learning About Different Abilities and Fairness
Chapter 12: Learning About Who Makes Up a Family and Fairness
Carry It On: A Letter to Our Readers
Checklist for Assessing the Visual Material Environment
Glossary
References
About the Authors
Index (available online only)
