The Early Childhood Project is a unique and innovative educational charity set up in 1988. We support individuals on the journey around equalities and inclusion. We help develop knowledge and skills that enable us to challenge and combat prejudice, discrimination and injustice in the lives of young children.
In 1988, the charity celebrated it's first 10 years by compiling a list of our favourite, at the time, books that we felt reflected boys and girls, men and women, males and females in a positive way, with no gender stereotyping!
So, especially resurrected from our archive, here is the original list. Which books would you include now?
Q: What do these have in common? Winnie the Pooh, Thomas the Tank Engine, Rupert the Bear, Postman Pat, Fireman Sam, Spot the Dog, Pingu, Noddy, Bob the Builder….
A: They all have male leading and supporting roles, and subordinate female roles. What effect could this imbalance have on the minds of our young children?
Free community event for children with their parents and carers and people who work with young children.
It’s the annual general meeting season and to keep up with the trend , the Early Childhood Project gives you advance notice of our AGM on Thursday 20th October, from 5pm to 6.30pm at Tarner Children’s Centre.
More details later but we shall keep our members happy by once again offering tea time treats and play and arts and crafts for young children and a promise of no boring speeches! More details to follow.
This is the start of a new era for ECP. We shall use the web pages to keep our members, friends and followers up to date with our sessions, events and what is important in the world of young children, their carers and those who work with them. We shall welcome chance encounters from those who find us through casual web searches, looking for all good things about equalities and inclusion issues and children, gender stereotyping, men in childcare and we are still, after all these years, waving the flag for the anti-bias curriculum!
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