Week 9
What is a transdisciplinary approach?
- Blending roles so support is embedded into everyday play routines
- One integrated plan
- Can't tell who is doing which discipline
Three questions to always ask for responsive practice
Who is not included?
What could be contributing to this exclusion?
What can be done differently to ensure inclusion?
Social justice
disruptive paradigm and includes concepts such as fairness, entitlement, and democracy
Critical Literacy
- to use literacy texts, skills, and processes to identify, resist, and counter racial injustice
What is a strength-based approach?
- Focus on what a child can do, rather than what they cannot do
- Highlight strengths
- Adapt activities and language to support the child's strengths best
What does Reggio Emilia-inspired inclusion promote?
- Collaboration, documentation, reflective pedagogy, and child-led inquiry
- Moves programs from interdisciplinary to transdisciplinary
- Inclusion = Belonging + Participation + Agency
How to apply responsive practice?
- Open dialogue for a broader view (engaging with others' perspectives can broaden or reshape one's own views)
- Equity defined by outcomes (true equity means eliminating disproportionality and disparity)
- Acknowledging racial disparities
-Powerful unexamined ideas (confront deep-seated biases)
What does teaching for social justice mean?
Identifying oppression in its numerous forms and taking action in the classroom to challenge the cycle of oppression
Inquiry based
allow children's organic and emergent questions and conversations related to race, racism, and racial justice to serve as the foundation for subsequent research. An educator listens to what the children are interested in and creates a discussion around it
Principles of a strength-based approach
- Each child has strengths and potential
-Individualized learning
- Collaboration
- Building relationships
What barriers did Chazz (video) face that led to his death?
- Systemic barriers (multiple schools, programs releasing him sooner than they should have)
- Financial barriers (Can't afford quality programs)
- Trying to "fix" his behaviours instead of addressing the underlying issues
Marginalization
treatment of a person, group, or concept as insignificant (unequal opportunities)
What are the three Ds
Difference, diversity, and human dignity
Arts integration
Implications of a strength-based approach
- environment becomes more positive
- supports children feeling competent and capable
- Strengthen relationships
- Value differences
How can you implement the 100 languages into practice?
- Seeing children as creative and capable learners
- Environments that allow for multiple forms of expression, representation, community, and identity
- All languages are equally valued (not only verbal or academic)
Disparity
Gaps in outcomes or opportunities between groups (access to proper care and support)
How do classroom discussions impact the teaching of social justice?
- Starting point to alter perceptions
- Demonstrates communicative democracy
- Precess collective problems, aims, and resolutions
Reader's response
Respond to texts related to issues in critical ways based on personal experiences (Read book and then have classroom discussion)
What does it mean to embrace each child's story
- Understanding that brains are built over time
- Cognitive, emotional, and social capabilities are developed and intertwined throughout life
Equity approach in environments + What are the goals?
- Language as a tool for inclusion or exclusion
- Challenging stereotypes and biases
- Asset-oriented language
- Promoting empathy and shared humanity
- Providing equitable support and opportunities
Goals
- Using frameworks, curricula, and perspectives centred on diversity, inclusion, anti-bias, anti-racism, anti-oppression, and cultural competence
- Gather, reflect on, and analyze data/evidence/observations from your programs/classroom interactions/relationships/materials
- To achieve equity by removing disproportions and closing disparities
Allyship
active support for the rights of a minority or marginalized group without being a member of it
How does reading books impact the teaching of social justice?
- Challenges ideas
- Pedagogy of listening
Anti Racist
Use picture books to explore historical experiences of a particular race (highlight counter-narratives of known and unknown events in history)
What is the 3R-EC framework
- Reflecting on epistemic aims about the nature of knowledge
- Reflexively weighing up personal and contextual concerns for achieving epistemic aims
- Resolved actions (Decision making)