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Question: The book says young children learn to distinguish gender tasks based on the behavior of adults, so what if a child is raised by a gay couple? Will their idea of gender tasks differ from other children's ideas?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Uniqueness is the most common characteristic of all children."
Fact: Beginning at age 2, children show knowledge of their own sex.
Quote: Pg 123 "...Infants in all cultures start out with the same biological equipment."
ReplyDeleteQuestion: pg 149 What are the physical characteristics children most frequently notice?
Fact: page 134 One of the principal goals of education for diversity is to implement practices in the classroom that contribute to the students' realization of their identities.
Question: What are some ways to eliminate gender stereotypes?
ReplyDeleteQuote:"As they grow-children whether in Oceania, Africa, or the United States- children of the same ages share similar physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive milestones."(122)
Fact: Culture, home environment, genetic traits, and context of development are four key factors that influence development.
Quote: Every time a child is born it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man. Rabindranath Tagore
ReplyDeleteFact: Beginning at age 2, children show knowledge of their own sex.
Question: Children notice many different physical characteristics and bullying is such a problem in our society right now. What are good ways to ensure that bullying is not occuring due to weight issues, skin color, or so many other characteristics children might notice?
Mary Sanders
Question: What are some ways media can be used to help children learn a positive message about being diverse?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "there is no such thing as the "right" or "wrong" color."
Fact: Culture plays a leading role in the way child will learn to view the world.
Question: Since the environment, which includes the school, can have a major impact on a child's view of life, how can I as an educator make sure that every single lesson that I teach provides a meaningful learning experience for every single one of my students? How can I make sure that each lesson follows DCAP?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "All children are born capable of learning" (p.119).
Informative Fact: According to Phinney and Rotheram, children around age 8 can, "define themselves as part of a group [and] also notice the traits of other cultural groups" (p.136).
Question: With a child’s own native culture being a major influence in their life, what are some ways we can we persuade him or her to accept our American culture?
ReplyDeleteQuote: “Remember that second to parents and family, teachers are the children’s most influential models” (p.143).
Informative Fact: Preschool children are able to discern differences such as color of skin, color of eyes and hair, texture of hair, shape of the lips and nose, and other physical differences, including disabilities.
Question: When does a child first notice the difference in cultures between themselves and their peers?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "The influence of the media is so powerful in today's society that it affects ways families practice child rearing." pg. 133
Fact: Successful multicultural teaching that meets the needs of young children can only happen when the early educator considers the developmental characteristics of young learners.
Fact: All children experience and share the same process of development in much the same way, regardless of where they live (p123).
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Denying children their culture is denying their identities" Jaipaul Roopnarine and James Johnson (p126).
Question: If children learn stereotypes and to be racist from the media and at home, how do we, as teachers, prevent these influences from invading our classroom and hurting our students?
Question:
ReplyDeleteIf the the media is influcing children and parents in and good and bad way how can we stop this from happening how can we start thinking for our selves?
Quote:
"During the first three years of life, awareness about the self, as an individual distinct from others, emerges and grows. comments like "i can jump high," " i am Carmen," or I have new shoes" testify to the child's emerging concept of self" (134).
Fact:
"While it is common to find infants sleeping in a crib and often in a separate room, co-sleeping is practiced by people from countries around the world. for example, in Cambodia and among Central American Guatemalan Mayans, co-sleeping is a common practice believed to help in building strong parent-child bond" (Berk..127)
Quote: "In all children, you will find the one." - Carmen Martinez
ReplyDeleteQuestion: What is the first milestone when you can tell if there is a developmental problem?
Fact: Development consists of similar and diverse milestones.
Question: Pg. 142. Why are gender stereotypes so powerful especially in this day and age when so many males and females work in atypical jobs and so many children are being raised by one parent?
ReplyDeleteQuote: Pg. 133. Perhaps a rule of thumb is to avoid making hasty judgements when children have a different social and cultural background.
Fact; Pg 134. According to social development theory, the preception of one's identity emerges as the individual begins to perceive oneself as a seperate person.
Question: What kind of characteristics do children of different diverse societies have?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "The early childhood years are an important phase for creating awareness of gender equality." PG 142
Fact: "According to Brazelton and Greenspan(2000), all children must have several specific needs met if they are to successfully grow and thrive:
*Ongoing positive and nurturing relationships
*Physical protection, safe environments, and regulation
*Developmentally based experiences that consider their particular needs
*Reasonable expectations and predictable structure and routines
*A stable and supportive community
*Cultural continuity across home, school, and community
Quote: "All children are born capable of learning." Jean-Jacques Rousseau
ReplyDeleteFact: The four key factors that influence development are culture, genetic traits, home environment, and the context of development. What is interesting is that these key factors are universal.
Question: What is more essential: nature or nurture?
Fact: Each child is a separate and distinct person as well as a memer fo the collective of children.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "I am what I am" -Popeye
Question: Are there other developmental factors? Can a child overcome the factors they've been dealt?
Question: What are some early signs of develpomental milestones?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "All children are born capable of learning" page 119
Fact: Acculturation: a process occurs where a mainstream(majority) culture and subordinate (minorty) cultures coexisit in society page 136
Question: How much does the environment we live in affect our identities?
ReplyDeleteQuote: Denying children their culture is denying their identities. p.126
Fact: Gender roles are socially and culturally bound. Young children learn to distinguish gender tasks based on the behavior of adults. They also acquire gender frames of reference through messages in the media and in the environment. p.139
Question: The book states that children learn gender roles at an early age. What are some ways to eliminate gender stereotypes?
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Every time a child is born it brings with it the hope that God is not yet disappointed with man." p.121
Fact: Assignment of gender roles is a function of culture; therefore, children learn to differentiate gender roles through the process of socialization.
Question: How do teachers handle the diversity of development within their classes?
ReplyDeleteFact: There’s four key factors that influence development; genetics, culture, home environment and context (environment).
Quote: “All children are born capable of learning.” –Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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ReplyDeleteAll children are born capable of learning (119) (Jean-Jacques Rosseau)
Question:
What are the four key factors that influence development? (125)
Fact:
We all have the same basic development milestones initially.
QUOTE: PG 122.: As they grow children of the same ages share similar physical, socioemotional and gognitive milestones.
ReplyDeleteFACT: PG 135.: Studies show that during the preschool years, children are able to identify themselves as members of an ethnic group.
QUESTION: Why do children percieve the things listed on page 149 first when it comes to people?
Question: When children start to notice the diffrerences between themselves and ohter children in the class room how do we as teachers makes sure that those realizations do not interfere with how they interact with those children?
ReplyDeleteFact: Development is an intergrated and coherent process experienced by all individuals.
Quote: " The second force that shapes how we feel about our racial and ethnic indentity is how others see us and what others say about us."
Question:How does a child of a different culture and ethnicity adapt when adopted into something completely different? As a teacher how do I help the child?
ReplyDeleteQuote:"Successful multicultural teaching that meets the needs of young children can only happen when the early educator considers the developmental characteristics of young learners."
Fact:Infants no matter the culture start out the same biologically and go through the same developmental stages.
Fact- Socialization is an ongoing process that assists individuals in learning to function effectively in a society.
ReplyDeletecomment- The people whom the child spends time with such as parents, relatives, and teachers together constitutes an influential element in shaping behavior and learning the culture. In his way children require the behavior characteristics of those in their group.
Question- how early do children realize their culture/ ethnicity is different than their peers?
fact: pg 134 according to the social development theory, the perception of ones identity emerges as the individual begins to percieve oneself as a seperate person.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: At what time would we as teachers bring up in a classroom environment about identities and without making it about races or making it about one certain child?
Quotes: pg 134" a semse of psychosocial well-being.. a feeling of being at home in one's body, a sense of 'knowing where one is going,' and an inner assuredness of anticipated recognition from those who count."
Carrie Stewart Jensen posted her blog on 2-6-11 at 8:25
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