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2019-2020 Springfield College Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Springfield College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ECED 340 - Diversity and Multicultural Perspectives in Early Childhood Education


This course examines the cultural and ethnic differences in values and its implications for instruction and curriculum development in early childhood education programs. Inaddition, this course explores how diversity in learning and development in young children should embrace individual differences. Tolerance, respect, bias, and prejudice will be explored as developmental concepts within young children. The role of the early childhood professional and community to promote multiculturalism and cultural competency will be discussed.

Credits: 3