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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?
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     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?
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     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
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Chapter 9
Chapter 10

3. Apply your understanding

Imagine you have been hired as an early childhood teacher. Do some informal research into each of the following approaches. How would your curriculum planning and pedagogical approaches look in each approach? What are the aims and purposes of each? Which resonate with you and which do not?

  • Multicultural education
  • Antiracist education
  • Intercultural education
  • Culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogies