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After reading the chapter, test your understanding. Are you able to discuss:- What factors go into creating a healthy, safe social-emotional environment.
- How adults treat children respectfully and what it looks like when they don't.
- Why adults shouldn't talk about children in front of them.
- Why an early childhood educator should be more like a mother hen than a drill sergeant.
- What stands in the way of continuity--an important ingredient in early childhood programs.
- Why there is disagreement about focusing the early childhood program on the individual or on the community.
- That there is an early childhood culture that often differs from those of the families and even staff members.
- A way to look at conflicting cultural priorities.
- That oppression affects child-rearing goals for some families.
- That culture is dynamic and always changing.
- Why it is important that infants learn their home culture.
- The ways in which the early childhood culture is evolving.
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