Give children the support of being rooted in their culture and the strength to soar beyond prejudice and discrimination; give them roots and wings. With this new approach to multicultural education, and the activities and strategies in Roots & Wings, you can create a culturally responsive program (center, nursery school, parent education). This long-needed perspective on how culture influences life in your classroom and the importance of maintaining culture in the lives of young children can change how you provide multicultural education.
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Roots & Wings will open doors to beginners in cultural diversity education, and will enrich the more experienced readers. It is a grand tool for assisting early childhood educator's to address the many faceted and complex issues of cultural diversity and racial prejudice...I recommend this book to any teacher, caregiver or parent who wants to begin learning what it means to foster young children's respect for themselves and others. -- Louise Derman-Sparks, author of Anti-Bias Curriculum
York's book has a wonderful store of activities to use with young children, an authoritative discussion of how prejudice develops, and a sensible approach to the process of creating personal and social change. It also presents an excellent rationale for multicultural education...Inspiring and hard working, Roots & Wings will be appreciated by teacher educators, curriculum planners, teachers, and parents. -- Young Children
York's book has a wonderful store of activities to use with young children, an authoritative discussion of how prejudice develops, and a sensible approach to the process of creating personal and social change. It also presents an excellent rationale for multicultural education...Inspiring and hard working, Roots & Wings will be appreciated by teacher educators, curriculum planners, teachers, and parents. -- Young Children
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Roots & Wings - The bestselling guide to anti-bias education for young children in a revised edition!
Over a decade ago Roots and Wings was published as one of the first practical multicultural resources for early childhood teachers. This invaluable guide is now completely updated to respond to the tremendous changes in the field around cultural relevance and anti-bias issues since the first edition was published.
Roots and Wings provides a thorough, clear, and practical introduction to multicultural and anti-bias issues in working with children and families in early childhood settings. Seamlessly blending theory and practice, this revised edition contains over 100 activities (many of them new or revised), practical examples, and staff training recommendations, as well as much of the information from the study guide Developing Roots and Wings.
NEW CHAPTERS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
*Bilingual education *Culturally responsive teaching *Children and prejudice
Roots and Wings is an ideal resource for preschool teachers, early childhood programs at colleges and universities, and training workshops.
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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This review is from: Roots and Wings: Affirming Culture in Early Childhood Programs (Paperback)
This book is a must have for current and future teachers. The author does a good job of presenting detailed information on Multicultural education. If you are not sure what Multicultural education is or how to include it in the classroom, this book will help you through. It includes over 60 pages of activities you can do with children that support culture,as well as suggestions on how to change the classroom environment to be multiculturally supportive. The book also gives background information on how children develop and how predjudice is formed. In a society that is so diverse, children need to learn to accept and value differences. Teachers have the very important job of teaching children tolerance and can get a good start after reading this wonderful book.
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Excellent choice for pre-school and kinder teachers,
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As a Kindergarten teacher it is often hard for me to find cross cultural lessons that are developmentally appropriate for my students. This book provides many chapters on the rationale for introducing culturally relevant curriculum into your classroom. More importantly, it gives numerous activities and instructions on how to do so. I wish I would have read it sooner.
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It is a good book that offered useful information about how implementing culturally relevant and anti-bias education with children. For example, the book explained about what is prejudice, racism, culturally responsive care, bilingual education, multicultural education,etc. and how to prevent it.
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using persona dolls, stereotypic materials, children first become, own physical features, empathetic interaction, large group time, feeling box, dramatic play area, multicultural concepts, seeing diversity, teaching pictures, multiethnic education, home language, interracial children, unfair behavior, multicultural education, oak tag, second language learners, childhood programs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, European American, New York, African American, Redleaf Press, Louise Derman-Sparks, Native American, Five Senses, Clothes We Wear, Places People Live, Far West Laboratory, Trisha Whitney, Yvonne De Gaetano, American Indian, California Department of Education, Menlo Park, San Francisco, Scott Foresman, Stacey York, Asian American, Census Bureau, Music For Little People, Sarah Pirtle, Teachers College Press, Bonnie Neugebauer New!
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using persona dolls, stereotypic materials, children first become, own physical features, empathetic interaction, large group time, feeling box, dramatic play area, multicultural concepts, seeing diversity, teaching pictures, multiethnic education, home language, interracial children, unfair behavior, multicultural education, oak tag, second language learners, childhood programs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, European American, New York, African American, Redleaf Press, Louise Derman-Sparks, Native American, Five Senses, Clothes We Wear, Places People Live, Far West Laboratory, Trisha Whitney, Yvonne De Gaetano, American Indian, California Department of Education, Menlo Park, San Francisco, Scott Foresman, Stacey York, Asian American, Census Bureau, Music For Little People, Sarah Pirtle, Teachers College Press, Bonnie Neugebauer New!
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- Kids Like (Sight Word Readers) by Rozanne Lanczak Williams on 4 pages
- All the Colors We Are: Todos los colores de nuestra piel/The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color (Spanish Edition) by Katie Kissinger on page 37, page 54, and page 166
- Dumpling Soup by Jama Kim Rattigan on page 88, and page 164
- Kaleidoscope: A Multicultural Approach for the Primary School Classroom by Yvonne De Gaetano on page 93, and page 191
- The Park Bench by Fumiko Takeshita on page 98, and page 164
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