Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 3.1 Chapter 3: Exploring Your Role in Respecting Diversity and Promoting Equity and Fairness

Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 3.2 Defining Diversity and Equity Diversity Means Everyone Some Diversities Bring Challenges Everyone Needs to Be Concerned Attitudes and Dispositions Are Important

Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 3.3 Multicultural Education From Civil Rights Movement to Multicultural Education Pathway to respecting, understanding, valuing, and including different cultures and experiences of children in America Purposes (Banks, 2001) 1.Important Idea 2.Evolving Process 3.Valuable Method of Reform

Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 3.4 Goals of Anti-Bias Education Nurture each child’s construction of a knowledgeable, confident self-concept and group identity Promote each child’s comfortable, empathetic interaction with people from diverse backgrounds Foster each child’s critical thinking about bias in human relationships Cultivate each child’s ability to stand up for her/himself and for others in the face of bias (Derman-Sparks & Ramsey, 2006)

Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 3.5 Social Justice An equal right to basic liberties and opportunities in a fair social system characterized by cooperative relationships between citizens over time (Rawls, 2001)

Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 3.6 Becoming an Advocate for Children Philosophy of teaching Advocacy in action Ways of being an advocate  As caring  As ethical decision making  As talk about children  As activism: personal, public, & private sector

Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 3.7 Fairness and Equity in the Classroom Focus on Relationships Focus on Safety and Responsibility to Others Focus on Curriculum Focus on Families and Community Commitment to Diversity and Fairness in Public Spaces