Description
Anti-Bias Education in the Early Childhood Classroom provides a useful, clearly outlined guide for implementing anti-bias and anti-oppression practices in early childhood education settings. Throughout the book, you’ll find:
- Stories from the field
- Strategies for keeping teaching practices in touch with growing social justice movements
- Tasks and questions to spark your professional growth in this important area
Katie Kissinger uses her personal experience as a longtime educator to highlight both the challenges and the potential for transformative learning in the anti-bias classroom, and gives other teachers the tools they need to create classrooms that welcome all students and families.
Table of Contents
List of Boxes, Meet the Author, Foreword by Carol Brunson Day, Acknowledgments, 1. Getting Started: Identity Work and the Personal Journey, 2. Classroom Basics, 3. Talking With Children About Skin Color Differences: Racial Justice, 4. Dancing for Democracy: Able-ness and Disability Justice, 5. Deconstructing the Gender Binary: Gender Justice, 6. Our Worth Does Not Come From What We Own: Economic Justice, 7. Tell Us Who Your Family Is: Family Justice, 8. Organizational Change: Institutional Justice, 9. Barriers, Resistance, and Way-Layers, 10. Moving Forward and Sustaining Hope, 11. Resources and Models for Doing the Work
