Celebrate!: An Anti-Bias Guide to Enjoying Holidays in Early Childhood Programs

by Julie Bisson

Is your early childhood program struggling with how to enjoy holidays in a respectful, anti-bias way? Now you can let the celebrating begin! Celebrate! is the comprehensive resource to guide you through the sensitive issues surrounding holidays. It is filled with strategies for implementing exciting culturally and developmentally appropriate holiday activities so you can party with ease. Chapters include Developing a Holiday Policy, Selecting Holidays, Addressing Stereotypes and Commercialism, Evaluating Holiday Activities, and more. Celebrate! tells you how to involve families and get on the road to making holidays something that everyone looks forward to celebrating!

Includes a preface by Louise Derman-Sparks.

Genres: Education

160 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1997