Anti-bias education is a framework for early-childhood and school curricula, developed chiefly by educator Louise Derman-Sparks and colleagues from the 1980s onward, built around four goals: helping children develop confidence in their own identity, comfort and respect for people different from themselves, the ability to recognize unfairness in language or behavior, and the confidence to speak up against bias they witness. It is widely used in American early-childhood teacher training and curriculum materials, formalized in the National Association for the Education of Young Children's own anti-bias curriculum guidance.
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Central QuestionWhether curricula can serve as a catalyst for critical analysis of social conditions, with social justice as the aim 1 Most Effective ForEarly childhood classrooms, following Louise Derman-Sparks's original framework for empowering young children 1 Sources
1. Anti-bias curriculum (Wikipedia)
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The anti-bias curriculum is seen by its proponents as a catalyst in the critical analysis of various social conditions.
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Derman-Sparks, L. (1989). Creating an Anti-Bias Environment Chapter 2, in Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children.
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