Celebrate!: An Anti-Bias Guide to Enjoying Holidays in Early Childhood Programs - Softcover

Bisson, Julie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1884834329 ISBN 13: 9781884834325

Publisher: Redleaf Press, 2002

Synopsis

Is your early childhood program struggling with how to enjoy holidays in a respectful, anti-bias way? Now you can let the celebrating begin! Celebrate! is the comprehensive resource to guide you through the sensitive issues surrounding holidays. It is filled with strategies for implementing exciting culturally and developmentally appropriate holiday activities so you can party with ease. Chapters include Developing a Holiday Policy, Selecting Holidays, Addressing Stereotypes and Commercialism, Evaluating Holiday Activities, and more. Celebrate! tells you how to involve families and get on the road to making holidays something that everyone looks forward to celebrating!

Includes a preface by Louise Derman-Sparks.

About this title

About the Author:

Julie Bisson is an early childhood education trainer, community college instructor, and consultant. Ms. Bisson received her M.A. in Human Development from Pacific Oaks College. She provides training on subjects ranging from culturally relevant and anti-bias curriculum to holiday curriculum. As a former child care director and preschool teacher, Ms. Bisson has experienced first-hand the issues facing child care practitioners and educators. CONCLUSION: A Final Word

Review:

Celebrate! provides the tools for addressing the "holiday question' in new, creative, and effective ways. Holidays matter deeply to people, and this book will help you involve children, families, and teachers in incorporating holiday activities within an anti-bias approach. If you have the courage, commitment, and presistence, this book will help you make it happen! -- Louise Derman-Sparks, Author of Anti-Bias Curriculum

In a beautifully presented, upbeat, easy-to-read format, Julie Bisson discusses the meaning of holidays and the complexities and different perspectives around this topic...[Celebrate!] is a very important addition to the field of anti-bias curriculum. -- Interaction Magazine, Summer, 1998

Julie Bisson tackles one of the most controversial and explosive aspects of multicultural education. She brings clarity and insight to the role of holidays and celebrations in early childhood programs. She answers the complaint "What am I supposed to do instead?" Her suggestions and real-life examples help us envision a new way of celebrating with children and families. Celebrate! is a much needed, long awaited addition to my bookshelf. It should be on every teachers wish list and in every programs resource library. -- Stacey York, author of Roots and Wings and Developing Roots and Wings.

About this edition

• Publisher: Redleaf Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1884834329
• ISBN 13: 9781884834325
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160