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The article I choose to read is Social Justice In Early Childhood Classrooms What The Reserch Tells Us. This article talks about adressing the message of power and privilefe with regards to how genender, race/ethnicity, class, sexual orination and langues are shown in the classroom practices and shaping childrens values and views on these topics. The US population has become increasingly diverse, children from nontraditional homes suffer from educational disadantages. This article also talks about equity pedagogy, which is a broad term for encompassesing many over lapping models. It talks about how teachers need to examine and change the way they teach the children. Two ways that teachers can do that is Cultural Relevent Teaching and Critical pedagogoy.

Cultural Relevent Teaching and Critical pedagogoy are used in early childhood classrooms in areas of race, gener and sexual orientation. Cultural relevent teaching address equality more broadly where as critical pedagogy focus on educational experiences of students from particular merginalized groups. Cultural relevent teaching is more based around cultural transformation, the teacher has to engaged in the community and with the families of the children. It is essencial to use childrens personal and cultural knoledge as part of a school curriculum. Teachers need to make an effort to learn the culutral norms of the children in their classroom and incourprate that into the cirriculum. Contrary to Cultural relevent teaching Critical pedagogoy works towards teaching and helping the children understand the powered that all the marginalized groups have, instead of just focusing on local marginalized groups. Critical pedagogoy aims to help build leaders to take action. It focus on ra...

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...ddress, I understand that not all parents want their children to learn about this and that as a teacher it may be awkard to address, but this may be confussing to other children who might no understand why a child has two mommies or two daddies. All familes deserve to be treated equal in the classroom.

This article was very enjoyable for me, I felt like I learned a lot about how to teach children about race, gender, and sexual ornination. This article also opened my eyes up to just how important it is to teach children about these subjects at a young age. It is important that as teacher we help children see that gender race, culture and sexual orientation can be expressed in many ways and that some of these ways have more power than others. As teachers it is our job to show these children how to be just, fair, and stand up for what is right and advocate of others.