2. The best time to start with this education is right from the start in early childhood.
This is a great time for parents and other adults in their lives to shape their
attitudes about race and cultural diversity.
It is important because our country, workplaces, and schools increasingly consist of
various cultural, racial, and ethnic groups. We can learn from one another, but
first, we must have a level of understanding about each other
3. Early childhood educators must support consistently warm and caring relationships
between families and their children, respect families’ languages and cultures, and
incorporate those languages and cultures into the curriculum, their teaching
practices, and the learning environment
how can we support dealing with
racial and cultural diversity in early
childhood education.
Major point of the topic
4. Don't let racist and prejudicial remarks go by without
intervening. It's important to let children know from a
very early age that name-calling of any kind, whether
it's about someone's religion, race, ethnic background, or
sexual orientation, is hurtful and wrong.
5. Cultural diversity
culture is used in the Swedish curriculum to refer to
children from other nations (Brantefors, 2015)
It is as a junction of instruments (protecting,
promotive, transformative) used to interact with the
surrounding environment
Curriculum in preschool
Play should perform a central role in the preschool since
through it, children are able to develop different areas
such as language, creativity, motor skills, teamwork,
social interaction, problem solving
(Skolverket, 2018)
6. — In the Malaysian context, ethnicity is important in the identification of one's
religion as well as giving a clue of their affiliated political parties
Learning about other cultures helps us understand different perspectives
within the world in which we live, and helps dispel negative stereotypes and
personal biases about different groups.
Local
7. UNESCO (2005) calls for inclusive education
and seeks to guide schools through a set of
actions as Curriculum.
This should develop understanding and
respect for differences between pupils and of
different cultures in society.
Perspective in global
8. recommendations
multicultural education seeks to
create equal educational
opportunities for all children,
including those from different racial,
ethnic, and social-class groups
Many of us as educators
have been taught to think
that education is neutral
and apolitical
9. Conclusion
For all children to understand
that the effects of racism are not
the fault of people of color, we
need to address these issues early
in children’s lives.
must be paired with
opportunities for young children
to learn where and how injustice
and inequality operate in our
society.