Reflective Essay: Identity Impact on Early Childhood Education

This reflective essay explores the author's identity as a female, Muslim, and Arab-Lebanese individual in Australia, examining its impact on personal and professional experiences within the context of early childhood education. The essay analyzes how these aspects of identity intersect with gender, class, and race, shaping the author's subjectivity and perceptions of the world. It critically analyzes the influence of feminist, race, and social learning theories on the author's understanding of childhood development and education. The author discusses the challenges faced by Muslim, middle-class females in providing early education, and reflects on the role of an early childhood educator in light of these experiences. The essay also examines the influence of Bandura's social learning theory and feminist perspectives on motherhood and education. The author links the discussion to theoretical concepts from the course, highlighting the complexities of identity and its implications for the field of early childhood education and broader society.

Reflective essay
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Contents
Theory selection.....................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................5
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THEORY
In relation to identify the gender such as Feminism, class of women. To focus on the
preference of individuals how they can behave negative attitude. Some kind of discrimination
have been occurred due to the gender basis. Analysing the areas such as gender basis,
considering the identity such as class of person. Based on the reflection, it has found that
identify the female, her middle class background. It has been sharped the subjectivity and
encountered the difficulties from the global world.
By considering the race theory- racism, it has been identified the culture or
background of individual’s, classifying all kind of female as hopelessly oppressed the
victims. It would be consider as fundamental problem which narratives theory (Anderson,
2021). Race theory has provided the justification to the female those are victim and followed
a procedure that lead to the best outcome or results.
In the context of awareness of the process and role of the early childhood education, I
have been focused on the female, those are belonging to Muslim, middle class background.
For females, it is very tough to provide the best education facilities for their children at early
stage. According to me, it was quite challenging to give a better options, enhancing the
personality of children at early phase. It was consider as growing stage where a children can
learn a lot of things, experiencing a new idea, innovation.
According to the behavioural child development theory, it has been identified the role
of education educator in terms of early development. Being a childhood educator, it has been
focused on the idea, thoughts and assumptions. In order to identify the attitude or behaviour
of children. It also believed that understands the psychological needs to focus on the
quantifiable as well as observable. This kind of opportunity has been supported to find the
scientific discipline. On the basis of behavioural manner, all kind of children can be showing
their behaviour at initial or early stage. It is all about the way in which influenced the
surrounding environment or area. Whenever a childhood educator can be used the behaviour
theories in order to determine the current environment of child. On the basis of reflection, I
have been identified that background of child was not so good. It may be applied some kind
of restrictions. Therefore, it is difficult to deal with theories only with finding the observable
behaviours. During early stage, the development of child depends on the stimuli, rewards,
reinforcement.
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Apart from that, it should be consider the Bandura’s social learning theory, which has
been expressed the idea of psychological thing. By consideration of theory, it has been
developed belief, assumption that showing process of human learning capability. For
example- children can be focused on the early development areas and learned about the
behaviour, which have not completely reinforced with the help of classical conditioning. On
the basis of social theory, it support the educator when they can gained a lot of information,
idea about attitude, behaviour (Jenßen & et.al., 2021). So, it has become easier to understand
learning abilities or capabilities through modelling, observation. By using Bandura’s theory,
it has been suggested that focuses on the observation because it plays an important role in the
context of learning. It does not required to find the best thing (Rathus, 2021). Instead
individuals are needed to learn by listening others through verbal instruction. It was great
thing to determine the behaviour, observing the specific condition at the time of early
development.
On the basis of feminist activism, disclosure of motherhood, it has been demonstrated
the concept of feminist as mother hoods, which plays an important and understanding the
specific roles or responsibilities. Throughout reflection, I will argue that motherhood,
feminists alike that should have gained more knowledge (MacBlain, 2021). Especially,
thinking of feminist notion and creating a strong bond with children’s.
A feminist post-structualist perspective offered the best alternative option for gender
bias in the past decade. It focused on the various perspectives and creating an open
interpretation. It opens up the space for identifying the female voices of current & past.
Deconstruct the reality of female-based categorise in context of historical narratives.
Apart from that, the gender basis is related to the modernist perspective. It helps the
female to gain more knowledge. They were able to collect or gather from the sense such as
hearing, sight and so on. It is all about the way to focus on the modernist which are
eliminating or removing bias, focused on the objective skills or knowledge. In relation to the
reflection, it has been examined gender bias and also providing limited preference because of
middle class background.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Anderson, J. D. (2021). Children's song acquisition: An examination of current research and
theories. Visions of Research in Music Education. 16(1). 80.
Jenßen, L. & et.al., (2021). Development of early childhood teachers’ knowledge and
emotions in mathematics during transition from teacher training to practice. Journal
of Educational Psychology. 113(8). 1628.
MacBlain, S. (2021). Learning theories for early years practice. Sage.
Rathus, S. A. (2021). Childhood and adolescence: Voyages in development. Cengage
Learning.
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