Stereotyping with Children

After our discussion this week, I remembered an article I had read in a previous class that had to do with stereotyping. The article was called, "Teaching Young Children to Resist Bias" and was put on the web by the National Association for the Educationof Young Children. This article was bascially about how children are faced with stereotypes at an early age and gives tips on how parents and teachers can help children stay away from forming these ideas. One of the main points that stuck with me over the years was how early children actually start stereotyping. In the article it stated, "We know from research that children between 2 and 5 start becoming aware of gender, race, ethnicity, and disabilities. They also begin to absorb both the positive attitudes and engative biases atteched to these aspects of identity by family members and other sigificant adults in their lives". The article is quite short and very informative, it is really worth looking at.
www.naeyc.org/ece/1997/10.asp