What I Learned

What I Have Learned

The one hope I have about working with children and families who come from diverse backgrounds is to be a part of their cultural context and help them not to be disenfranchised. I hope to work with children and their families in ways that honor their multiple cultural identities, and build upon their many skills and strengths.
One goal I would like to set for the early childhood field related to social justice is that the elected officials start to take children and their families more seriously. When you think about the numbers, children do out-number the number of adults on this planet. They deserve the recognition and equity as anyone else. My goal is that children are heard and not seen, and more people will be advocates for children and be a voice for them in any language, culture, and identity.

I would like to thank my colleagues for being a part of my internet community. I have learned a lot from your discussions, and blogs. I hope one day we will all meet and find new ways to change society for the sake of the children and their families.

Comments

  1. AnonymousMarch 1, 2014 at 5:34 PM

    Hi Larry,
    I think that you have set great goals for yourself and for the early childhood system as a whole. I appreciate your thoughts on advocacy. I think that this course has helped to educate me on the different ways that children of other cultures can me marginalized. I feel that the more people who take interest in learning about diversity and feel passion about the early childhood field, the more advocates these children will have.
    Thank you for all of your insight during the last two months.
    Sharon

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  2. Teresa HarrisMarch 8, 2014 at 5:00 PM

    Hello Larry, good luck with the course educ 6358

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