Networking with early childhood organizations
As an early childhood professional, it is important to find others who will help to sustain you in your work for equity with young children and families. There are many professional early childhood organizations across the world that you can draw un to add to the frameworks you use in creating and reflecting on your teaching and learning. For example, European teachers who are involved with the organization in Early Childhood Education and Training (DECET are committed to (www.decet.org/common goals en.html)
•nurturing each child's construction of a knowledgeable, confident self-concept and group identity;
•promoting each child's comfortable, empathetic interaction with people from diverse backgrounds,
•fostering each child's critical thinking about bias;
•cultivating each child's ability to stand up for himself or herself and for others in the face of bias