Anti-Bias Education in the Early Childhood Classroom: Hand in Hand, Step by Step / Edition 1

by Katie Kissinger

Overview

Anti-Bias Education in the Early Childhood Classroom provides a useful, clearly outlined guide for implementing anti-bias and anti-oppression practices in early childhood education settings. Throughout the book, you'll find:

• Stories from the field
• Strategies for keeping teaching practices in touch with growing social justice movements
• Tasks and questions to spark your professional growth in this important area

Katie Kissinger uses her personal experience as a longtime educator to highlight both the challenges and the potential for transformative learning in the anti-bias classroom, and gives other teachers the tools they need to create classrooms that welcome all students and families.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138651593
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/22/2017
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	194
Sales rank:	344,245
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Katie Kissinger is an educator, author, and activist for social change. She has been teaching children and adults from an anti-bias/anti-oppression perspective for 30 years. She works as an Adjunct College Instructor and an Education Consultant for Social Justice. She is the author of the bestselling children's book All the Colors We Are: The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color.

Table of Contents

List of Boxes viii

Meet the Author ix

Foreword Carol Bruvson Day x

Acknowledgments xii

1 Getting Started: Identity Work and the Personal journey 1

2 Classroom Basics 18

3 Talking With Children About Skin Color Differences: Racial Justice 34

4 Dancing for Democracy: Able-ness and Disability Justice 51

5 Deconstructing the Gender Binary: Gender Justice 67

6 Our Worth Does Not Come From What We Own: Economic Justice 81

7 Tell Us Who Your Family Is: Family Justice 97

8 Organizational Change: Institutional Justice 111

9 Barriers, Resistance, and Way-Layers 128

10 Moving Forward and Sustaining Hope 145

11 Resources and Models for Doing the Work 158

Editorial Reviews

This powerful book, full of action strategies, provides everything you ever needed to know about teaching young children--and adults--about bias and diversity. Drawing from her own diverse experiences, Katie Kissinger invites us to "join others in an effort to create a world where every person can feel safe and welcome to be who they are."

--Elizabeth Jones, Faculty emerita, Pacific Oaks College

This thoughtful, provocative book offers guidance and encouragement for educators as they take up anti-bias and anti-oppression work. The book's intimate, conversational style invites readers to think about ways to integrate social justice teaching and learning that align with current campaigns for justice in areas like transgender rights and the Black Lives Matter movement. Katie emphasizes the importance of educators' ongoing development as anti-oppression activists, calling us all--beginners, allies, and activists--to move steadily forward in creating communities for children, families, and educators that are just, joyful, and embracing.

--Ann Pelo, teacher educator, program consultant, and editor of Rethinking Early Childhood Education

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