Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/embracing-multicultural-education-and-celebrating-cultural-differences-in-our-center/5024368/
No matter where you live or which center you work in, you can look throughout the classrooms and smile knowing you have a wonderful group of children, all of whom come from different backgrounds and help make your center a diverse environment. As part of our work in early childhood and early care, it is important not only to have a diverse group of children enrolled in the center, but to truly understand how to best work with them—not only as a whole, but with each child as an individual as well. We need to embrace the multicultural education approach and have a solid understanding of what it means in action. “Diversity or multicultural education is a continuous approach to working with children, parents, families and colleagues every day” (Wardle, 2003). It goes beyond embracing the different backgrounds of the families; it is a way of teaching that aims to help all children grow, as it works to promote diversity and inclusion and directly impacts the social-emotional growth of all.
Cultural diversity and multicultural education are terms that many of us are familiar with and would agree to the importance of. We want to infuse our curriculum and allow for learning experiences ...