Anti-Bias Domain: Justice

OVERVIEW & PURPOSE

Each child will increasingly recognize unfairness, have language to describe unfairness, and understand that unfairness hurts. (Derman-Sparks & Olsen, 2010)

EDUCATION STANDARDS

  1. Students will recognize stereotypes and relate to people as individuals rather than representatives of groups.
  2. Students will recognize unfairness on the individual level (e.g., biased speech) and injustice at the institutional or systemic level (e.g., discrimination).
  3. Students will analyze the harmful impact of bias and injustice on the world, historically and today.
  4. Students will recognize that power and privilege in uence relationships on interpersonal, intergroup and institutional levels and consider how they have been a ected by those dynamics.
  5. Students will identify gures, groups, events and a variety of strategies and philosophies relevant to the history of social justice around the world.

(Teraching Tolerance, 2016)

RESOURCES

  1. Early Childhood
  2. First – Fourth Grades
  3. Middle School
  4. High School

REFERENCES

Derman Sparks and Olsen’s Four Core Goals of Anti-Bias Education

Teaching Toleramnce Anti-Bias Framework

SAMPLE JUSTICE-RELATED LESSONS

  1. Fours
  2. Kindergarten
  3. First
  4. Second
  5. Third
  6. Fourth
  7. Fifth
  8. Sixth
  9. Seventh
  10. Eighth
  11. Ninth
  12. Tenth
  13. Eleventh
  14. Twelfth