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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kissinger, Katie, 1951- author.
Title: Anti-bias education in the early childhood classroom : hand
in hand, step by step / Katie Kissinger.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2017. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016043211| ISBN 9781138651586 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781138651593 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781315624716 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Early childhood educationSocial aspects. |
PrejudicesStudy and teaching (Early childhood)United
States. | Social valuesStudy and teaching (Early childhood)
United States.
Classification: LCC LB1139.5.S64 K57 2017 | DDC 372.21dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016043211
ISBN: 978-1-138-65158-6 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-65159-3 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-62471-6 (ebk)
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Katie Kissinger was a student at Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena, California, when the concept of anti-bias education was just beginning to emerge. She had a teaching fellowship at the Pacific Oaks Childrens School, where each of the student teachers was asked to keep a notebook with them at all times and record any references children made to their own identity and the identities of others. Katie arrived at Pacific Oaks with a strong commitment to anti-oppression work, but needed a strategy for integrating anti-oppression thinking into education practice, beginning in the early childhood classroom. The anti-bias approach that later emerged became that strategy.
Katie has been teaching and learning about the anti-bias/anti-oppression approach with children, families, teachers, and administrators for more than 30 years. Some of those joys, struggles, and transformations are reflected in this book. The people with whom she has shared her journeyboth adults and childrenare at the heart of this story. Katie believes we all have a place in the anti-bias/anti-oppression journey, and hopes readers of this book find what they need to join or to continue with the struggle to create a safer, kinder, more just world for all of our children.
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Contents
by Carol Brunson Day
Guide
I have been learning and teaching anti-bias/anti-oppression education for more than 30 years. But, as with everything in life, my acknowledgments have to begin with my mom and dad. They have loved me unconditionally and that has allowed me the freedom to love others deeply and to strive for justice in our world.
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