Social Justice in Early Childhood Education and Care- Report
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Social Justice in Early Childhood Education and Care- Report
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Running Head: SOCIAL JUSTICE IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE Social Justice in Early Childhood Education and CareNameInstitution
SOCIAL JUSTICE IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE 2IntroductionThe growth and development stages of a child are very important in their transition toadulthood. Children learn best from the environments they are exposed to and from the peoplesurrounding them. Therefore since most of the critical years of growth in the life of a child arespend in school and with their educators it is important to note that these educators play a vitalrole in their development and how they view the issues they face or likely to face in the world(Adams, 2016). Most important is to understand the social justice issues in their earlydevelopment which are passed during their early childhood education and care. It is thereforeimportant for educators to understand and teach children concerning such the issues to thechildren. Parents also play a greater role in the growth and development of the lives of theirchildren and therefore should be in fore front of addressing these issues in their life. The understanding of social justice is based on the concept of understanding humanrights, equity and a just and equitable society. However, children at their early childhood andalso individuals at higher growth and development levels find it hard to understand what fairnessor fair really mean (Adams & Bell, 2016). This essay will, therefore, provide an understanding ofwhat really it means to be fair in line with the social justice advocacy in early childhood and careas well as provide recommendations which can be used to promote positive social change forequity childhood. Programs in early childhood adopt social justice and ecological coaching as afront issue in ensuring effective early childhood development. They prioritize culturally sensitiveand anti-bias learning and coaching with the aim of addressing issues of fairness and unfairnessamong children. The essay hence evaluates and clearly presents the aspects of social justice in
SOCIAL JUSTICE IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE 3relation to early childhood development. The essay identifies different aspects and issues thathave both direct and indirect effects on various facets of social justice among children with aprimary focus on the meaning of fairness. The theory of cognitive development by Jean Piaget as well as the Social learning theoryby Albert Bandura plays a vital role in the understanding of early childhood behavior as theyform part of the early childhood education and care through their educators and parents(Demetriou et al. 2016). The theory of cognitive development helps us understand that childrendevelopment occurs through information processing, through conceptual resources, languagelearning as well as through other aspects of brain development. While on the other hand, thesocial learning theory argues that people tend or usually learn from one another throughobservation, imitation and also through modeling (Rosenthal & Zimmerman, 2014). Children aretherefore believed to interpret or make sense of things or the world around them by observingand interpreting the environment and the people in it. In a social world that is characterized byinequalities resulting from race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion among otherinequalities which have been used to group individuals children grow up accepting these ethnicbackgrounds, the religion they find their parents in, the socio economic status and familystructures as well as the communities they grow in (Pacini-Ketchabaw et al. 2015). This formsthe basis of their judgments as they make their judgments based on what they see in the worldaround them.It has been a common phrase to many people in the modern society today that “life isn’tfair” perhaps this makes us question what fairness means and why is it that almost everyonewants fairness or to be treated in a fair manner. How can educators help children understandwhat is fair and just? Fairness is something that every individual wants in our daily interactions
SOCIAL JUSTICE IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE 4and something that children need to learn (Sensoy&DiAngelo, 2017). To children it can mean somany things including sharing with others, playing a game with the rules, taking turns whentalking or even playing, listening to others and seeing many sides of one issue. If understoodfrom that children view it would be easier for educators to teach to them what really means to befair and just. Good character traits in individuals don’t just happen they need to be taught andnurtured in children. Social justice in early childhood education and care aims for betterparticipation in alignment with and adherence to international human rights and therefore workswith the groups interested in the rights of children.Many people find it hard to understand fairness as it is commonly and in most casesmisunderstood for equality or being equal. However fair does not mean equal. Children in earlychildhood education as said earlier provide the basis of understanding of the understanding of thesocial justice in the world. Due to the inevitable human nature, we all have a likelihood of beingselfish and therefore that makes us want everything to work to our benefit or to our good and soit does to children (Pianta et al. 2015). It becomes difficult to see the other side of an issue as weare so filled or preoccupied with our self-being. Fairness in general terms can be said to be theimpartial or just treatment or behavior without favoritism or discrimination. Early childhoodeducation provides the best platform therefore for teaching fairness and justice and developing ageneration that is conscious of its behavior or treatment to other people (Bloch et al. 2014).Through playing together, sharing of items, taking turns or even observing certain game rules actas a foundation of teaching and learning fair and just treatment for others.The importance of the meaning of fairness or the fair concept in early childhoodeducation and care can be seen through the understanding of the anti-bias education curriculumin school. This is an approach that has been developed for early childhood education to set forth
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