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Perspective Taking

• International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education: Lessons from My Travels
  Working with early childhood colleagues in other countries can be enlightening and enriching. This paper offers seven insights gained from the international experience.
• Multiple Views: Valuing Diversity
  Maintains that in an increasingly multicultural and globally interdependent world, learning to value diversity will become a curriculum imperative. Outlines two activities designed to facilitate this goal.
• Reading Engaged Readers: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
  Describes the importance of understanding that engaged readers can make commitments or promises to understand other readers' perspectives of a text and their interests in using it. Describes how the author's demonstration lesson to a group of Kazakstan educators was transformed into a site for exploring the educators' practices for using a folktale.
• Understanding Multicultural Perspectives: A Project Approach
  Illustrates how the transformation approach can be used to enhance the social studies curriculum. Describes a project where elementary students analyze primary documents and firsthand accounts of a shared, class experience in order to help them understand the role that cultural perspective plays in the recording of history.
• Unpacking Adventure
  Anecdotes are used to illustrate how White, male, European values are embedded in adventure education. Traditional European assumptions about risk, challenge, and individual accomplishment may not be relevant to other cultures, women, or disadvantaged people.