In Our Own Way: How Anti-Bias Work Shapes Our Lives

Bias reaches every level of society, from institutions and systems to the everyday interactions between people. And bias is rarely obvious, often hidden from view and difficult to acknowledge and challenge.

With the continuing changes in child care today, how can teachers offer children and their parents a bias-free environment? How do early childhood professionals start anti-bias programs in thier own settings? By learning from those who have worked in the field before them.

In Our Own Way: How Anti-Bias Work Shapes Our Lives is filled with the personal stories of people who have worked to establish anti-bias environments in their careers in child care. Each of the stories is a unique look at how the writers learned to think critically in their own lives as well as how theyve learned to teach this skill, among others, in their anti-bias work. And each shares that it is workrequiring constant communication, energy, vigilance, and the passion for trying to make positive changes in the community.

Early childhood professionals at every level will be inspired by the voices of the writers of In Our Own Way. Moving beyond the concepts of diversity and anti-bias work, they instead share the everyday anecdotes that will help caregivers shape an anti-bias program and face the challenges in their own communities.