What a great resource: the Early Childhood Activist Toolkit, from Defending the Early Years. It opens with a quote from Ann Pelo, writing in the introduction to our book, Rethinking Early Childhood Education. Early childhood is the time in our lives when we develop our core dispositions – the habits of thinking that shape how we live; our work as early childhood educators is to nurture dispositions in young children towards empathy, ecological consciousness, engaged inquiry, and collaboration. These dispositions undergird just and equitable communities; they are at the heart of activism and in the heart of activists.
Posted on: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:48:43 +0000