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One hope that you have when you
think about working with children and families who come from diverse
backgrounds (any format and any length)
The one hope that I have
when I think about working with children and families who come from diverse
background is to value their culture and become culturally sensitive as well. It is very important to get to know much as
possible about children and families’ culture background, living style,
language and where they came from. As an educator, I believe it is helpful and
valuable to implement various lessons/activities that support diversity within
classroom. Gonzalez-Mena
(2011) states, it is so important that diversity is a benefit, whereas children
learn new things and take on new languages, new ideas, new perspectives, which
should be in addition to what they have at home.
I believe many people are labeled and talked about because of lack of
understanding of how they live, where they come from and about their culture as
a whole. I believe child who is being exposed to various cultures will become
sensitive and acceptable of other children who are different from them.
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One goal you would like to set
for the early childhood field related to issues of diversity, equity, and
social justice (any format and any length)
The one goal I would like
to set for the early childhood field related to issues of diversity, equity,
and social justice is to create a rich learning environment that is welcoming
for all children and their families’ culture is supported without biases,
prejudices and discrimination. In spite of children and families cultural
differences it is essential to allow them to bring what they have to the classroom,
where children are able to learn about other cultures. Gonzalez-Mena
(2008) believes the way culture is learned is from people around you. This
will eliminate any negative behavior or feeling toward a particular child who
are different in language, cultural background, values and beliefs.
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A brief note of thanks to your
colleagues
I would like
to say “thanks a million” to all my colleagues for their support, encouragements,
knowledge and wisdom that was shared with me throughout the duration of this
course. It has been a pleasure to work together as we learn about the
perspective diversity and equity among children and their families. I look
forward to future courses together where we can all continue to share our
understanding and knowledge about the early childhood field through discussions
and blogs assignments.
References:
Gonzalez-Mena,
J. (2008). Perceiving and responding to differences. In Diversity in
Early Care and Education (5th
ed., pp. 8-13). Boston, MA: McGraw Hill
Laureate
Education (Producer). (2011). Culture and diversity (video file). Retrieved
from https://class.waldenu.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_
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LaYTonya,
ReplyDeleteThank you for all your input in this course. It has been a pleasure to learn about others perspective with the same goals of promoting diversity, equity and social justice. It is important for early childhood educators to have a positive mindset to promote equity and diversity in the classroom. When children feel validated from the learning environment and educated with anti-bias curriculum, it will help reduce bias toward others who are different than them. Children learn through experience, therefore, staffs should also role model equity toward others. Nice post!