The anti-bias curriculum is an approach to curriculum that attempts to challenge prejudices such as racism, sexism, ableism, ageism, weightism, homophobia, classism, colorism, heightism, handism and religious discrimination. It is endorsed by civil rights organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League. The concept of bias it addresses covers departures from equality, whether measured by equal access to opportunities or by equitable distribution of outcomes across different demographic groups.
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Core ClaimThe anti-bias curriculum is an approach to teaching that seeks to identify and challenge embedded prejudices, such as racism, sexism and ableism, in curriculum content and classroom practice, with the stated goal of advancing social justice. 1 Connections
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The anti-bias curriculum is a curriculum which attempts to challenge prejudices such as racism, sexism, ableism, ageism, weightism, homophobia, classism, colorism, heightism, handism, religious discrimination, speciesism and other forms of kyriarchy.
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In what year did the anti-bias curriculum approach emerge as a named practice?
The Wikipedia article describes the anti-bias curriculum's purpose, examples and criticism at length but names no founding year, article or originator for the approach.
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University of Tennessee professor J. Amos Hatch has argued that some anti-bias curricula themselves adopt a discrimination and anti-European/western racial bias, producing curricula that are overtly biased against people of European descent or in favor of people of African descent.
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