Anti-Bias Education in the Early Childhood Classroom

<p><em>Anti-Bias Education in the Early Childhood Classroom</em> 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:</p><ul> <li>Stories from the field</li> <li>Strategies for keeping teaching practices in touch with growing social justice movements</li> <li>Tasks and questions to spark your professional growth in this important area</li> </ul><p>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.</p> List of Boxes, Meet the Author, Foreword by Carol Brunson Day, Acknowledgments, 1. Getting Started: Identity Work and the Personal Journey, 2. Classroom Basics, 3. Talking With Children About Skin Color Differences: Racial Justice, 4. Dancing for Democracy: Able-ness and Disability Justice, 5. Deconstructing the Gender Binary: Gender Justice, 6. Our Worth Does Not Come From What We Own: Economic Justice, 7. Tell Us Who Your Family Is: Family Justice, 8. Organizational Change: Institutional Justice, 9. Barriers, Resistance, and Way-Layers, 10. Moving Forward and Sustaining Hope, 11. Resources and Models for Doing the Work