START SEEING DIVERSITY

"The heart of anti-bias work is a vision of a world in which all children are able to blossom, and each child's particular abilities and gifts are able to flourish."

-Derman-Sparks & Edwards, 2012

Giving children the words to express their feelings about the world they see around them and investigate the injustices of bias and prejudice helps to accomplish the following core goals of anti-bias education:

ABE Goal 1

Each child will demonstrate self-awareness, confidence, family pride, and positive social identities.

ABE Goal 2

Each child will express comfort and joy with human diversity; accurate language for human differences; and deep, caring human connections.

ABE Goal 3

Each child will increasingly recognize unfairness, have language to describe unfairness, and understand that unfairness hurts.

ABE Goal 4

Each child will demonstrate empowerment and the skills to act, with others or alone, against prejudice and/or discriminatory actions.

Reference

Derman-Sparks, L., & Olsen Edwards, J. (2012). Anti-bias education for young children and ourselves. Washington, DC: NAEYC.