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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
  1. How is difference defined and how are difference and diversity related?
     1. Check your understanding
     2. Extend your understanding
     3. Apply your understanding
  2. Where does ‘difference as deficiency’ come from and how can we interrupt the practice of pathologizing children?
     1. Check your understanding
     2. Extend your understanding
     3. Apply your understanding
  3. What are the markers of difference and how are they related to children’s developing sense of who they are in relation to others?
     1. Check your understanding
     2. Extend your understanding
     3. Apply your understanding
  4. What does it mean to honour children’s right to be different?
     1. Check your understanding
     2. Extend your understanding
     3. Apply your understanding
  Resources
Chapter 9
Chapter 10

2. Extend your understanding

Read the following article:
Ponciano, L., and A. Shabazian (2012), ‘Interculturalism: Addressing Diversity in Early Childhood’, Dimensions of Early Childhood, 40(1): 23-30. Available online: https://www.southernearlychildhood.org/upload/pdf/Interculturalism___Addressing_Diversity_in_Early_Childhood___Leslie_Ponciano_and_Ani_Shabazian.pdf (accessed 23 January 2018)

The authors state that critical dialogue about intercultural understanding must begin in the teacher education program and reflection is a means of think critically about oneself and others. Reflect on your own experiences working, volunteering, or engaging in everyday interactions with members of a diverse population as described in this chapter (markers of difference). What have you learned from these experiences? What have you identified as areas you need to learn more about in order to teach children from diverse backgrounds?