"Substantial racial stereotyping toward young children of color found among white adults who work with them"
New research from The Australian National University (ANU), Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the University of Michigan:
"...young children and youth of color in the U.S. face significant racial stereotyping from adults who work with them.
This national study analyzed for the first time stereotypes held by white adults who work or volunteer with children across the U.S., examining their reported attitudes toward adults, teenagers and children from a range of racial and ethnic backgrounds. This includes attitudes toward black and Hispanic/Latinx groups, but also toward those from Native American, Asian and Arab backgrounds."
Read the press release and full study.
OLIS is thrilled to have the opportunity to bring you professional development from Diversity Talks in the form of their Implicit Bias workshop. Join us at the Fuller Creative Learning Lab in East Providence on November 15, 4:30pm-6:00pm, to examine our implicit bias and its impact on marginalized youth we work with. Check out https://www.diversitytalkspd.com/inthemedia/ for more information about Diversity Talks.
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Spot the International Space Station
"What are we teaching boys when we discourage them from reading books about girls?"
From author Shannon Hale:
"I got better at noticing the myriad ways adults teach boys that they should feel ashamed for taking an interest in a story about a girl, from outright (“Put that down, that’s a girl book”) to subtle (“I think you’ll like this book even though it’s about a girl”). There is peer shaming as well, but it starts with and is supported by adults.
I’ve now asked thousands of kids the same question: “What kind of books do you like?” They answer: fantasy, funny, comics, mystery, nonfiction, etc. No kid has ever said, “I like books about boys.” Yet booksellers tell me that parents shop for their sons as if books have gender: “I need a boy book. He won’t read anything about a girl.”
Not only does this kind of thinking prevent boys from learning empathy for girls, it also prescribes narrow gender definitions: There is only one kind of boy, and any boy who doesn’t fit that mold is wrong.
Stories make us human. We form bonds by swapping personal stories with others, and reading fiction is a deeply immersive exercise in empathy.
So, what happens to a culture that encourages girls to read books about boys but shoos boys away from reading books about girls?"
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