What kind of education do preschool children need?
The academic quartet has ideas, and they recently revealed them online.
For the 2021 summer edition National Early Childhood Education Association (NAEYC) Journal, science was dutifully abandoned.
“authorView.Create an anti-racist toddler space“:
- Rosemary Allen — Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education, Metropolitan State University, Denver
- Dorothy Shapland — Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education, Metropolitan State University, Denver
- Jen Neitzel, PhD — Executive Director of Education Equity Research Institute
- Dr. Iheoma U. Iruka — University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Frank Porter Graham Institute for Child Development, Professor of Public Policy Studies and Founding Director of the Equity Research Action Coalition
First of all, what Yes “Anti-racism“?
University of California, Los Angeles Law Professor and Intersection is important! Kimberly Crenshaw help go out:
“Anti-racism is the active dismantling of institutions, privileges, and daily practices that strengthen and regulate the contemporary dimension of white rule. Of course, this also involves a critical understanding of the history of white Americans.”
Every CNN, micro-attacks to avoid:
- “Don’t blame me. I have never owned a slave.”
- “All lives are important.”
- “I don’t care if you are white, black, yellow, green or purple.”
“George Floyd’s concern for racial equality after the murder,” Ministry of Education At the beginning of the article, “led to a conversation about racism that was unheard of less than a year ago.”
Now, these four figures must develop and maintain anti-racism methods.
This article asserts that teachers need to “understand the racial history of early childhood programs and current racism in early childhood programs.”
In the 1960s, society became ill:
[B]The lack of a family, especially black single mothers, is regarded as sick, incompetent, and unable to provide the best environment for their children. It is believed that in the plan, white teachers need to teach black families how to raise their children. The fear of unruly, uneducated, and socially abnormal children has led to the implementation of preschool courses, which focus on improving IQ scores, learning social “appropriate behavior”, and actively responding to authority figures.
The crew argued that the emphasis on “psychopathological results, such as criminal conviction and teenage pregnancy”, “helped [a] Deficit shots of black children and communities. “
A major mistake: Systemic racism was ignored.
[One research project] Try to solve the problem of children in low-income families, rather than solve the structural racism that causes a large number of black children to live in poverty and be labeled “poverty”.
The huge error is still happening:
Normally, early childhood educators and programs think about or teach race, prejudice, and fairness in one of two ways: the “color blind method” or the “differential celebration method.”
The error has a root cause:
These stem from the belief that if educators only teach love, kindness, and fairness, then they don’t need to point out or discuss racial prejudice or inequality with our young learners.
The four insisted that this effort “didn’t recognize that everyone lives in a racist system.”
In addition, “kindergarten classrooms promote social racism and anti-blacks, or the belief that black bodies have become marginalized, neglected, and despised.”
If you are not be opposed toRacist, you…
[I]If teachers are not actively committed to creating an anti-racist space for young children, they may teach children to be racists through their actions and words in the classroom.
So how can caregivers create an “anti-racist environment for young children?
You have to beat it day after day:
Anti-racism teachers teach racism throughout the day and in courses.
As a help, scholars provided recommended readings:
- 1619 plan, Nicole Hannah Jones (2019)
- Between the world and me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
- How to be an anti-racist, by Ibram X. Kendi (2019)
- Ibram X. Kendi (2016) Sealed from the beginning
- Awakening White: And Finding Oneself in the Story of Race, Debbie Owen (2014)
- White fragile, Robin DiAngelo (2018)
- White Rage, Carol Anderson and Pamela Gibson (2017)
Campus reform Talked with Jen Neitzel, author of NAEYC article.
She told the media that many people “wrongly believe that children are color blind.”
In fact, babies can be bad:
“[I]Babies can classify people nonverbally by race and gender when they are six months old. “
In addition, Iheoma U. Iruka also talked about how young racists might develop:
“Although we don’t have numbers, racism can be said to be the air we breathe in this country, and it also penetrates the field of young children. We know that it has feelings on many levels, but young children do not have cognitive development or language expertise to express it.”
So let your little one enter anti-racism as early as possible.
Otherwise, you might create another racist.
We have already got too many such things.
-Alex
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