chapter 5 serving culturally diverse children and families
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Chapter 5
Serving Culturally Diverse Children and Families
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Overview
• Children are capable of learning to function in more than one cultural context.
• By creating an environment of unconditional acceptance of different cultures in early childhood programs, children can learn to accept, respect, and function across cultures without compromising their appreciation of their own individual culture.
• Chapter 5 helps early childhood professionals recognize that children learn to value diversity not just through a well-designed multicultural learning environment, but very importantly from the attitudes revealed to them each day in the actions of the adults around them.
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Objectives After reading this chapter, you should be
able to:1. Define culture.
2. Appreciate the importance of culture in
positive child guidance.
3. Recognize and terminate prejudice,
bias, and ethnocentricity.
4. Identify early signs of discrimination in
young children to “nip in the bud.”
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Objectives After reading this chapter, you should be
able to:
5. State the criteria for selecting multicultural items for the early childhood environment.
6. Be aware of cultural differences among children and parents.
7. Reflect one’s own cultural affinity.
8. Reflect on one’s own sensitivity to other cultures.
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What Is Culture?
• Traditional values and patterns of behavior passed on from parents to children
• Beliefs held by members of smaller groups of people within the larger society who are part of social, religious, ethnic, or other distinct groups
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Giving Unconditional Acceptance
• Helps children learn to accept and respect others who have differences
• Supports children as they learn to function across cultures
• Allows children to become multicultural without giving up their appreciation for their own individual culture
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Culture Infuses Body Language
• Body language, like spoken language, can mean different things in different cultures
• Gestures, facial expressions, and body postures that people use to communicate along with or instead of speech are distinctly related to cultural background
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Children are Best Understood in the Context of Their Community
the parentsthe workplacethe community
the societythe schoolthe economy
Affected by the interactions of…
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Bronfenbrenner’s Social-Ecological Model of Development
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Children are Developmentally Harmed by Biased Treatment
• Racism
• Sexism
• Negative stereotyping
• Discrimination
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Books and Pictures Should Show a Diverse World
• People of different ethnicities
• Both genders in nonsexist activities and roles
• People with disabilities doing ordinary things
• A range of ages (elderly people should be included)
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Music, Art and Literature Should Reflect a Diverse World
• Ethnic and cultural diversity
• The lives of children with disabilities
• Girls in heroic and exciting roles
• The rich variety of cultural expression from around the world
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Children’s Names are Integral to Their Identity in Any Culture
• Learn to pronounce names correctly!
• If the child is hearing imparied, learn to sign the child’s name correctly
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Cultural Tendencies
— Before we can be effective in working with children and families, we should examine our own racial and cultural attitudes
— We can only be sensitive to others if we are honest in confronting and analyzing our own racial and cultural point of view
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Style of Control
• Authoritarian – Interactive (or control) style relying on one-way
communication, rigid rules, and punishment—“the sledgehammer.”
• Permissive – Interactive style relying on neglect, abdication of
responsibility, or overindulgence—“the doormat.”
• Authoritative– Interactive (or control) style relying on two-way
communication, collaboratively developed rules, and positive guidance—“the guide.”
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Learning Approach
• Accept Knowledge – The learner is not expected to create knowledge.
Throughout history a great deal of knowledge has been passed down to younger generations by wise elder generations. Some people take this knowledge without question.
• Construct Knowledge– Just because something was always believed to be true
doesn’t mean that it really is true. Some people always like to confirm things for themselves. They believe that knowledge is something anyone can construct.
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Social Role Expectation
• Cohesive Interaction – Reciprocal teamwork; sticking together to
carry out tight-knit group activity
• Individual Development– A particular person, distinct from others in a
group, changes, advances, or progresses to a more advanced state
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Language Code
• Visceral – Proceeding more from instinct than from
logical thinking. Characterized by or showing strong emotions.
• Differentiated– To make detailed distinctions. Categorizing
systematically; making specialized discriminations that are broken down into subcategories.
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Intelligence Mode
• Social-Emotional Competence – The level of one’s self-awareness, mood
management, self-motivation, empathy and understanding of one’s inner feelings
• Cognitive Knowledge– The aggregate or global capacity of a person
to act purposefully, think rationally, and deal effectively with his or her environment
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out
hate;Only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Sermon On Loving Your Enemies Delivered, At Dexter Avenue Baptist Church,
Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957