Social justice education with very young children
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2010
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Vigliante, T.
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Proceedings of the SEAA Biennial Conference with SASOSE Annual Conference : learning for life : sustainability, global citizenship and social justice, 2010, pp.1-12
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SEAA Biennial Conference with SASOSE Annual Conference: Learning for Life, Sustainability, Global Citizenship and Social Justice (19 Feb 2010 : Adelaide, South Australia)
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Social justice education is seen as a worthy and important goal of schooling; however, the explicit development of social justice attitudes and beliefs in early childhood programs has in practice received less consideration. In the Australian context, a small body of research has recently emerged which articulates the role early childhood education can play in raising issues of justice in an effort to develop socially just dispositions and even political activism in very young children. In this paper, the importance of developing understandings which underpin attitudes to social justice will be discussed. The discussion will focus on one understanding, namely equality, and more specifically, equal moral worth. The author will illustrate how the foundations of social justice and inquiry learning can be developed in early years programs with 3‐5 year olds and possibly even younger children, through the use of carefully selected picture books which invite inquiry into the notion of equal moral worth.
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