Reflecting on Principle Six
| Site: | RRU Open Educational Resources |
| Course: | Self-Leadership in Early Childcare and Education |
| Book: | Reflecting on Principle Six |
| Printed by: | Guest user |
| Date: | Friday, 6 June 2025, 4:14 PM |
Pre-course reflection | Calling yourself in
Review the ECEBC Code of Ethics (2021), and spend some time reflecting on “Principle 6: We work in ways that affirm and enhance human dignity, respect fundamental human rights, and celebrate difference and diversity” (pp. 13-14).
As a child care manager and leader, how do you “take action in the face of racism, oppression, inequity, and discrimination in all its forms?” (Early Childhood Educators of British Columbia, 2021, p. 13).
Do you notice disparities between your professional response-ability, and your personal response-ability? (Note, the author of this course attributes this alternative spelling of the word, responsibility, to scholar and speculative fabulation feminist, Donna Haraway)
- What motivates you to take action against injustice?
- What barriers prevent you from taking action within your professional role?
Capture your reflections in your journal and take time to honestly reflect and identify areas for personal growth.
References
Early Childhood Educators of British Columbia (2021). Code of Ethics (7th Edition). https://www.ecebc.ca/resources-merchandise/code-of-ethics
Haraway, D. (2012). Awash in urine: DES and Premarin® in multispecies response-ability. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 40(1/2), 301-316.
Democratic Futures
Watch the Ted Talk "How to imagine a better future for democracy," where adrienne maree brown and Baratunde Thurston discuss power, people, and the potential for restructuring systems within society.Informed by decades of social justice movement facilitation and somatics, adrienne maree brown’s vision of leadership imagines systems woven of mutual flourishing, pleasure, and liberation.
Baratunde Thurston is a writer and podcast host who calls on the capacity of the collective to engage as citizens.
As you watch the video, consider how these concepts might support you in imagining more just worlds in early years programs.
- How can child care managers and leaders imagine their role as people responsible for holding space for truly democratic practice?
- How can child care managers and leaders envision the culture that might emerge from responsive and caring relationships?
Calling Yourself In
As a child care manager and leader, can you imagine your role as a person who is responsible for holding space and creating the conditions for truly democratic practice? What do you need to enact this vision?
Consider:
- What barriers do you face?
- What do you need?
As a child care manager and leader, can you envision the culture that might emerge from responsive and caring relationships?
- Whose voices are included in this vision?
- What can you do to bring those voices in?
- What barriers do you face?
- What do you need?
How can your child care centre be a fractal of the world that your heart is longing for?
- How do you wish to feel in the world?
- What do you wish to experience?
- What hopes do you have for others and how they might feel in the world?
Capture your responses and reflections in your journal, taking time to explore how your vision for democratic practice connects to your leadership role, your relationships, and the future you hope to help shape in your child care community.