Throughout this course, I have gained many insights on diversity, culture and family culture. It doesn’t matter what family a person grows up in as long as they are part of a peaceful, caring and trusting family with strong bounds that consisted of love, safety, happiness and encouragement. No matter what culture or race is present in the classroom setting, educators should teach students how not to discriminate and to respect, trust and appreciate other people differences. Early childhood professionals are always in contact with people of different culture and different races. Professional should gain a complete understanding of racism and racial identity in order to help support young children that may or may not have prejudice views. Helping to uncover and examine young children act of discrimination can help to eliminate behavior problems early in life (Derman-Sparks & Edwards, 2010). By helping young children to understand any discrimination thoughts, will help them to have peace within themselves and peace with children of all colors.
Peace is many things.
Peace begins with saying I am sorry.
Peace begins with not hurting others.
Peace begins with honesty and trust.
Peace begins with showing cooperation and respect.
Peace is being quiet, caring for peers, and giving hugs and kisses.
Peace is opening the door for old people.
Peace is praying, loving, seeing animals sing, being patient, sleeping, writing, sing to nature, and watching swans swim.
Peace is giving love to nature, giving joy to people and planting flowers in the spring.
World Peace Begins With Me, and people getting together.
Just a thought!!
We all walk the earth with a heart inside, so let put aside differences and join hands.
When prayers and dreams are answered, only then we will realize that world peace and harmony make us all.
Sometime, showing facts and coming up with ideas about cultures, will give young children a better picture concerning thoughts and feelings of prejudice they may or may not have toward other people.
References:
Derman-Sparks, L., & Edwards, J. O. (2010). Anti-bias education for young children and ourselves. Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
Diversity Poems for Kids, Diversity Kids Poetry, Diversity Top ...www.4to40.com/poems/default.asp?k=Diversity Cached
Ida, You did a wonderful job with this blog post. I loved reading your poem, it was very inspiring. I believe in world peace and people working together. This course sure has been an eye opener and I also have learned a lot about diversity and the differences in people. I am glad that we were all created differently, otherwise the world would be a very boring place. Ida, thanks for sharing...Linda
ReplyDeleteIda, I enjoyed reading your post and I must say that I agree with what you said. That is why as educators before we began to teach others about other cultures we need to look inward and analyze our own thoughts and feelings about others.
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ReplyDeleteI loved your poem about peace - what a simple way to describe such a complex thought. I agree with what you said at the end, that presenting facts and ideas can bring forth some stereotype and prejudices that we never thought that we had. It's an important thing to remember as an educator, especially in my hometown that is becoming more and more diverse.
I love your idea that it all begins and ends with peace. It is such a simple idea with such big meaning. I agree with you that people should love one another no matter what and put their -isms to the side. You are right, by helping the children understand how to respect each other then we are changing everyone's future.
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