Examples Of Tokenism In Early Childhood

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Tokenism as defined by (Dictionary.com) is the practice or policy of making no more than a token effort or gesture, as in offering opportunities to minorities equal to those of the majority. Tokenism in an early childhood setting means to be specific in the approach of cultures, an example could be in a 3 year old kinder room when a group time is done and the educator may decide to conduct a group time that is specifically about the aboriginal culture, but then the next day you might do a group time that is based on animals or on a different culture and then for the rest of the kinder week at group time you do something different. This is being tokenistic towards cultures. To avoid this situation in an early childhood setting you could embed