Anti-bias education is an optimistic commitment to supporting children who live in a highly diverse and yet still inequitable world. Rather than a formula for a particular curriculum, it is an underpinning perspective and framework that permeates everything in early childhood education--including a teacher's interactions with children, families,…

With a focus on the leader's role in initiating and sustaining anti-bias education in programs for young children and their families, this book is both a stand-alone text and a perfect companion for "Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves." It emphasizes that this work is not only about changing curriculum, but requires…

It is 30 years since NAEYC published "Anti-Bias Curriculum Tools for Empowering Young Children" (Derman-Sparks & ABC Task Force, 1989). Since then, anti-bias education concepts have become part of the early childhood education (ECE) narrative in the United States and many other countries. It has brought a fresh way of thinking about…

This article discusses issues related to socioeconomic aspects of early childhood education work. It seeks to increase the visibility of equity issues and to encourage discussion of this important aspect of families' and children's lives. It offers some concrete suggestions for one's classroom and explores the author's own belief and attitudes…

Drawing on experience teaching a college course, this book explains the process that evolves as teachers and students grapple with learning about racism and becoming antiracist. Racism is defined as an institutionalized system of economic, political, social, and procedural relations that ensures that one racial group has and maintains power and…

Noting the effects of prejudice on all young children, proposes implementation of antibias education that would empower children to resist the negative impact of bias on their development and enable them to become critical thinkers and activists for social change. Offers strategies for incorporating multicultural and antibias activities into daily…

Based on research indicating that children between ages 2 and 5 become aware of gender, race, ethnicity, and disabilities, this brochure attempts to assist parents in dealing with misconceptions, discomfort, fear, and rejection of differences that may develop into prejudice in their young children. The brochure argues that bias adversely…

Discusses children's development of cultural identity and attitudes. Examines common multicultural curriculum approaches that deny diversity and treat multicultural activities as tours of other cultures. Suggests that these approaches inadequately prepare children to live knowledgeably and empathetically with diversity. Proposes an effective…