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The Rights of Learners
July 15, 2013
The most important things in life are the connections you make with others.
-Tom Ford
-Tom Ford
The July/August 2013 issue of Exchange focuses on Rights — the rights of children, teachers, parents, and administrators. In her contribution to this collection, "Respecting the Rights of the Learner", Lilian Katz offered these thoughts...
"Respectful teaching conveys, through the relationship between the teacher and the learner, confidence in the child’s potential ability to overcome difficulties and to persist in the face of some inevitable obstacles. A respectful teacher is one who helps learners of every age who have persisted in the face of setbacks to accept their limitations gracefully and to be satisfied that they have done their very best.
"A respectful teacher is also one who helps students, even the young ones, to evaluate their own accomplishments as they progress, not in terms of whether their work is good or bad, or right or wrong, but in terms of other criteria they can gradually develop the habit of using. For example, you can ask in a serious and respectful way, 'Is the drawing as complete as you want it to be?' or 'Does the story you wrote (or told) include as much detail as you think it should or could?' (Is it complete? Clear? Strong?) Even preschoolers have been observed to respond to such appropriate queries thoughtfully and to indicate the beginning of a life-long disposition to evaluate their own efforts thoughtfully."
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Hearing Everyone's Voice: Educating Young Children for Peace and Democratic Community
Children recognize conflict, injustice, and bias; but they need to be taught how to sort out their concerns and take action to bring about fairness for all. In Hearing Everyone's Voice, teachers and parents and children share stories of their struggles to build a democratic community by learning the many ways there are to hear each other given differences in age, ethnicity, gender, culture, and economic background. The perfect guidebook for integrating peace education, anti-bias perspective, and democratic practice into your curriculum.
Teaching Four-Year-Olds: A Personal Journey - Updated & Revised Edition
What does every young child need to be a well-adjusted, happy person? From Carol Hillman's years of experience and wisdom comes the answer: Help each child discover a world where play, creative freedom, self trust, and personal responsibility open the child's mind and heart to the excitement of learning and the enjoyment of sharing it with others.
Connecting: Friendship in the Lives of Young Children and Their Teachers
Connecting looks at friendship as it develops in the context of early childhood programs, where people come together in unlimited combinations of age, experience, sex, culture, and background. This thought-provoking collection of articles offers practical tools and ideas for facilitating relationships among children and adults with contributions by experts including Ashely Montagu, Judith Leipzig, Kay Albrecht, Lella Gandini, Margie Carter, Diane Levin, and a host of others.
The Goodness of Rain
To nurture ecological identity in young children, we invite them into relationship with the world beyond walls and with the creatures that live there. We invite them into ethical thinking anchored by the compassion that comes from caring and engaged relationships. We invite them to come home to the Earth, and to live honorably in that home.
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