Living Well Together

Educator Accounts of Doing Anti-Bias Work for and with Young Children

Joy Dangora Erickson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

162 Seiten

2026
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
979-8-8558-0511-6 (ISBN)

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This accessible, philosophically framed early childhood education text shows how to create and implement a civic-minded, anti-bias curriculum.

This accessible early childhood education text offers an in-depth look at the creation and implementation of a series of civic-minded, anti-bias curriculum maps in contrasting classroom settings: one residing in a state with a "divisive concepts" law and another residing in a state without one. Grounded in philosophically informed conceptualizations of flourishing and personal autonomy, Joy Dangora Erickson argues that anti-bias education is a crucial component of a larger civic education and that schools have a moral obligation to provide it. However, social biases can impede citizens' abilities to make and execute well-informed decisions supportive of their own and others' well-being. Given that the current sociopolitical landscape in the United States actively discourages many educators' efforts to cultivate anti-bias learning spaces, being able to navigate these outside pressures and do right by children at this time is imperative. This book supports preservice and in-service early childhood educators by thoughtfully considering the curriculum maps designed by the research team and how they were employed in classrooms in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Joy Dangora Erickson is an Associate Professor of Education at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts. She is the author of Reading Motivation: A Guide to Understanding and Supporting Children's Willingness to Read.

List of Illustrations

Foreword
Winston C. Thompson

Introduction

Part I

1. The Power of Making Informed Decisions

2. Early Childhood Anti-Bias Education in the US

3. Preparing to Do Anti-Bias Work with Young Children

Part II

4. Using the Team’s Maps to Notice and Interrupt Gender Bias in Preschool
Joy Dangora Erickson and Kelly Anderson

5. Using the Team’s Maps to Notice and Interrupt Racial Bias in Kindergarten
Joy Dangora Erickson and Kyleigh Rousseau

Part III
6. A Necessary Mindset and Promising Instructional Moves

7. Takeaways for Creating an Autonomy-Supportive Learning Space for Flourishing
Joy Dangora Erickson, Kyleigh Rousseau, and Kelly Anderson

Epilogue

References
List of Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.12.2025
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white; 11 Figures; 4 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Didaktik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik
ISBN-13	979-8-8558-0511-6 / 9798855805116
Zustand	Neuware