Glossary

Anti-bias education is a responsive curriculum built on foundational values of diversity and equity.  Derman-Sparks and Edwards (2019) identify four interrelated goals of anti-bias education:

• Goal 1: Identity:  Demonstrate self-awareness, confidence, family pride, and positive social identities.
• Goal 2: Diversity: Express comfort and joy with human diversity; accurate language for human differences; and deep, caring human connections.
• Goal 3: Justice: Recognize unfairness, have language to describe unfairness, and understand that unfairness hurts.
• Goal 4: Action: Demonstrate empowerment and the skills to act, with others or alone, against prejudice and/or discrimination.

Reference

Derman-Sparks, L., & Edwards, J. O. (2019). Understanding anti-bias education: Bringing the four core goals to every facet of your curriculum. Young Children, 74(5), 6–12.

As defined by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to be an Antiracist (2019), “Antiracist: One who is expressing the idea that racial groups are equals and none needs developing, and is supporting policy that reduces racial inequity” (p. 24).

Reference

Kendi, I. X. (2019). How to be an antiracist. Penguin Random House: One World.