Professional Hopes and Goals
My hope for working with children and families from diverse background is that children and families would experience cultural visibility and continuity (Sparks, & Edwards, 2010), in their immediate environment as well as in all other settings.
Also, it is my hope that all children and families of diverse background will benefit from equity and social justice in the teaching learning environment. The anti-bias education is a vital tool for such a push (Sparks, & Edwards, 2010).
Finally, all children and families would feel valued and become resources to other children and families that have cultural differences.
One goal I will like to establish for the early childhood field related to issues of diversity, equity and social justice is to ensue that issues of equity, and social justice if become visible are addressed and policies and practices be put in place for the early childhood field so that each child's individual needs would be met in a diverse society
To al my colleagues and friends, I say thank you for those insights towards diversity, equity and social justice.
The journey was a long and tiresome one but we have made it once again.
As we continue on let us be optimistic about the future of children and families towards equity, and social justice. Every child deserves to develop to his fullest potential and we should be committed to making this happen.
See you in the next!
Resources
Build diversity and equity retreived from http://www.buildinitiative.org/content/diversity-and-equity
Derman-Sparks, L., & Edwards, J. O. (2010). Anti-bias education for young children and ourselves. Washington , DC
Hi Theresa,
ReplyDeleteYou have wrote another interesting blog which I have learned a lot from reading. I agree that all children will learn from other cultural families with differences. Working in this class with my colleagues have helped me to learn and grow in understanding the different concepts of diversity working in the early childhood field. I want to thank you for taking the time to help me understand the different assignments. I am looking forward to learning in another class with you. The journey continues!
Theresa,
ReplyDeleteYour posting for this last assignment shows that you have learned a lot about equity and diversity. Thank you for sharing and providing your vision of the future. Cheryl
Theresa,
ReplyDeleteOne last blog for this course. Even though this was more time consuming than the other coursers we learnt a lot togather that we will be practicing in our classrooms as well as in our daily lives. Thank you for sharing your passion, knowledge, and wisdom.
Wish you all the best with rest of the classes.
Theresa,
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you that all children must experience cultural visibility and continuity (Derman-Sparks & Edwards, 2010). That message needs to be embraced and executed in all our educational institutions beginning at the early childhood centers so that all children life chances will be enhanced due to the fact that they will be nurtured in a supportive environment. It is clear that the effects of schooling affect us for a life time so it is important for families to be extremely supportive of their children’s development and schools must provide positive experiences to support all children’s development.
Reference
Derman-Sparks, L., & Edwards, J. O. (2010). Anti-bias education for young children and ourselves. Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
I believe that by having additional resources at hand about diversity helps with working with families and children from various backgrounds. I hope to continue to expand my work with them as well.
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