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ERIC Number: ED302331
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1988
Pages: 19
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Interracial Families and Biracial Children: How the Child Care Program Should Respond.
Wardle, Francis
This paper presents the views of an early childhood educator who is also a parent of biracial children on the following topics: interracial families, biracial children, and ways in which early childhood programs and schools should work with these families and children. Discussion focuses on mixed backgrounds, the need for and use of appropriate labels, the multiplex heritage of biracial children, their genetic heritage, society's definition of biracial children, myths about interracial parents and their children, ways of supporting biracial children in the early childhood school setting, teachers' support of biracial children, and 13 specific school and classroom activities to be used with biracial children. Educators need to be responsive to the identity needs of biracial children, and the special needs of their parents. Difficulties that hinder educators' abilities to respond to biracial children are described. Professionals who work with young children must overcome these difficulties, gain the information that is needed to destroy the myths about biracial children, and provide experiences to support biracial children's development of positive identities. (RH)
Publication Type: Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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