Module 6: Living Inquiries – Identities, Social Responsibility, and Diversity
Pathways for Engaging with Identities, Social Responsibility, and Diversity
The Early Learning Framework presents the following pathways to invite you to design environments and cultivate practices to inspire engaging with identities, social responsibility, and diversity.
Children become confident in their identities, including cultural, racial, physical, spiritual, linguistic, gender, social, and economic.
Educators create a culture in which different opinions and views of both adults and children are accepted, welcomed, and valued.
Children and adults accept and value differences in others and in themselves.
Children and educators discuss social justice issues. These may include segregation, diversity, poverty, race, war, gender, discrimination, and inequity.
Indigenous and non-Indigenous educators may discuss Canada’s history of colonization and seek ways to contribute to reconciliation.
Educators and children recognize that humans and the natural world are connected and dependent on each other. They begin to reimagine pedagogies to respond to our environmental crisis.
