Goals for Anti-Bias Education

The Council for Professional Recognition recently published a white paper, "Diversity and Inclusion in Early Care and Education."  This paper cites four goals for anti-bias education proposed by Louise Derman-Sparks and Julie Olsen Edwards in their book, Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves:

• Each child will demonstrate self-awareness, confidence, family pride, and positive social identities.
• Each child will express comfort and joy with human diversity; accurate language for human differences; and deep, caring human connections.
• Each child will increasingly recognize unfairness, have language to describe unfairness, and understand that unfairness hurts.
• Each child will demonstrate empowerment and the skills to act, with others or alone, against prejudice and/or discriminatory actions.

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