Module 6: Living Inquiries – Identities, Social Responsibility, and Diversity

Identities, Social Responsibility, and Diversity and Your Practice

As an educator, you can engage with the living inquiry of identities, social responsibility, and diversity within your practice in the following ways:

Identities

• You can view children as citizens of their communities and of the world. You promote meaningful relationships with people and places, pasts and futures
• You may understand that children contribute to reflective dialogue, critical thinking, and decision making
• You are able to support and listen to children. You value their opinions and help them value the opinions of others
• You believe in the capacity of all children to achieve their highest potential

Social responsibility

• You can develop practices and create environments that encourage active participation in democratic practices. This can create ethical foundations for social and environmental health and well-being, now and in the future
• You can contribute to reconciliation by discussing colonization with others

Diversity

• You can help children to think about how people, environments, and fellow creatures depend on each other. This may help children to value individual, social, and cultural diversity
• You can create environments and practices in which diverse abilities, cultures, languages, traditions, and heritages are celebrated and woven together