I never realized just how much bias is found in children\u2019s books. Every night, my husband and I read three books to each of the boys. As we read, I focus on their reactions and we talk about each book afterward. The conversations with the twins are usually fairly superficial but Jackson, my 6 year old, is extremely tuned into the world. If someone looks different than he thinks they should, he will be the first to speak up and ask why, but as I sit here and reflect on everything you and I see as bias, I can honestly say, he has never caught on. I chalk that up to kindergarten innocence, which I am completely jealous of…how amazing to be that innocent??? I got to thinking, I want to raise humans who question, who stand up against stereotypes and I want students who do the same.<\/p>\n
Of course I will make a conscious effort to preview texts before presenting it to both my boys and students, but I wonder if I could almost do a lesson like we did in class to teach citizenship and how to demyth stereotypes. Is that too advanced for 3-5th graders or even too daring for me to attempt? A lot to think about…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I never realized just how much bias is found in children\u2019s books. Every night, my husband and I read three books to each of the boys. As we read, I focus on their reactions and we talk about each book afterward. The conversations with the twins are usually fairly superficial but Jackson, my 6 year … Continue reading Something to think about…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/elemsocialstudies-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}