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Most classrooms contain children from a variety of backgrounds, where home culture, religious beliefs and the family's economic situation all impact on achievement. This needs to be recognized by teachers in order to establish fair, respectful, trusting and constructive relationships with children and their families, which will allow every child to reach their full potential.
This book looks at real issues that affect teachers in the classroom, and examines a variety of influences affecting child development. It provides you with the theoretical and practical information you need to ensure you understand the complex factors which affect the children in your care, and it encourages good, thoughtful teaching. Dealing with some of the less widely addressed aspects of diversity and inclusion, the book considers:
Children who are asylum seekers; The notion of ‘pupil voice’; What diversity and equality mean in practice; Gender and achievement; Looked-after children; Social class; Disability; Ethnicity and whiteness
This book is essential reading for any education student looking at diversity and inclusion, and for teachers in role looking for advice on how to meet the professional standards.
Diverse Families, Diverse Childhoods
Diverse Families, Diverse Childhoods
This Chapter Explores
- How children need to form secure attachments when young to enable them to thrive;
- That for many children these secure attachments are with their immediate birth family, however, there is considerable diversity in what might constitute a child's ‘family’;
- The notion that a child's immediate family is only part of the structures and systems a child interacts with to enable them to thrive;
- What we mean by parenting.
In the previous chapter we explored how understanding the concept of identity is an important part of working with children from diverse backgrounds. The exploration of identity also considered how important families are in how identities develop and are maintained. This chapter picks up and further discusses the notion of families, family ...
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