Early Learning, Supportive Care 20, 30
ELSC28
Module 28: Children’s Culture and Identity (Optional)
Outcome
Determine ways to support children’s culture, identity and sense of belonging.
Indicators
| (a) | Discuss what it means to belong to a family and a community (e.g., birthplace, name, parents, grandparents and community connections). |
| (b) | Recognize how connection to others, place and language influence identity development. |
| (c) | Investigate ways to ensure parents, guardians and families feel included and have a sense of belonging in early learning environments. |
| (d) | Demonstrate ways to include families’ cultural identities in early learning and child care environments (e.g., books, posters, family pictures, orally transmitted stories, decorations, music). |
| (e) | Research ways in which early learning and child care environments can support language learning (e.g., through music, literacy, vocabulary building activities). |
| (f) | Identify ways to support and foster identity when working with young children (e.g., selecting multilingual books and software, selecting music of various genres that reflect the local contemporary cultural community, using manipulatives and loose parts familiar to the children, learning key words in children’s home language). |
| (g) | Describe strategies that can be used in early learning and child care environments to challenge gender stereotypes. |
| (h) | Research local events of social, ceremonial and community activities available to families with young children. |
| (i) | Investigate protocols for inviting grandparents, family members, Knowledge Keepers or Elders into an early learning setting to share stories, songs, dances or cultural foods. |
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