Young Children and Racial Justice : Taking Action for Racial Equality in the Early Years: Understanding the Past, Thinking About the Present, Planning the Future

Early years workers are doing one of the most important jobs in society - together with families, they are laying the foundations of young children's future from the day they are born.

This book provides a comprehensive approach to the issues facing all early years workers in coming to terms with what it means to enjoy living in multicultural society.

It guides them along an unthreatening path - although it challenges the racism endemic in society it is understanding of the realities facing everyone involved in the process of getting rid of it.The book deals with prejudice, discrimination, racism and how children learn their attitudes to people who are different from themselves.

It covers issues such as skin colour, terminology, living in white areas, terrorism, name-calling, community cohesion, unlearning racism and dealing with racist incidents.

It ends with a discussion of government policies, requirements and documents about racial equality and a framework of good practice for practitioners and local authorities."Young Children and Racial Justice" is laid out specifically so it can be used when introducing concepts of racial equality It provides numerous case studies for discussion and the many references include short accessible articles for students.

But the book is equally for practitioners, volunteers, administrators, support workers, trainers, development workers, policy makers, leaders, managers, inspectors, officers or researchers, at all levels of the sector - from government ministers to story-tellers - who are striving to overcome racism.