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     When I consider working with children and their families from different backgrounds, I hope to design educational environments to make them feel welcomed and included, understood. I definitely hope that I will not micro-aggression any individual and respect their individuality with my words and actions.        My purpose for the early childhood field related to diversity, equality, and social justice is to provide an educational environment without prejudice. While they receive early childhood education, children's culture, languages, colors, and behaviors must respect.      I gained different kind points of perspective from my classmates the posts and comments. It was important for my development to follow discussion groups, understand them, and be informed of different experiences. I appreciate everyone for this.  Dr. McCarty! I would like to especially thank you for your understanding. I wish you a happy and peaceful 2021. ...

The country that caught my attention while I was navigating the world map. I found it interesting when I examined its history and culture. Surinam , officially known as the Republic of Suriname , is a country on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. French Guiana bordered it to the east, Guyana to the west, and Brazil to the sou th.               It is the smallest sovereign country in South America at just under 165,000 square kilometers. Suriname has a population of approximately 575,990, most of whom live on the country's north coast, in and around the capital and largest city, Paramaribo. Suriname is the only sovereign nation outside Europe where Dutch is the official and current government, business, media, and education language. The country has rainforests located in the tropical climate zone. As I prepare to invite the family to the class, I explain to them that I would like to ask the family a few quest...

• What memory do you have of an incident when you experienced bias, prejudice, and/or oppression, or witnessed someone else as the target of bias, prejudice, and/or oppression? Keep in mind that one can encounter such incidents in real contexts, including online environments, as well as in fictional ones, such as movies, books, television shows, and the like. The English trailer link is here  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xB3_v09vuw . I want to introduce the much-discussed scenario in a Netflix series, which showed in Turkey in November. Fahri Karataş comments on this series as follows (2020) "Ethos is one of the most insightful and nuanced representations of the diverse segments of contemporary Turkish society we have watched. When you go deep into the psyche of each individual — with the trappings and the biases — you reach universal themes of alienation and trauma, arrogance and othering, as well as healing and mutual understanding." "Meryem, performed by Öyk...

Picture from The Wall Street Journal ( Aug. 9, 2020)        In the summer of 2017, my two sons and I were returning to the US together. We were confused during the New York JFK airport passport, and security transition noticed and decided to seek help from an employee. I asked my questions to the security guard, who African-American woman, and I added that I am still learning English and sometimes have difficulty understanding. The guards made a different facial gesture, then turned to me and said, "You don't know English, so why are you coming here?" said. It was a long question for me, and no needed to answer it. My children and I were able to look at each other and just said okay. Then, without changing her tone, she said something to me with some gestures and turned away without even looking back. When I asked what she said to us, my son said that I felt very distressed. We never talked about that issue again with my children, and frankly, we pretended not to hav...

Culture:  The coexistence of relations and values ​​of a group of people who share the same language, religion, customs, traditions, or, in simpler terms, food, music, or general beliefs in life.  Diversity is  colors made up of the cultures displayed by people from different lifestyles. Like my neighbor in the neighborhood where I live, wearing an Indian outfit on the street, my Muslim neighbor wearing a veil, or my American neighbor walking to the mailbox barefoot. My friend's recipe, a teacher, is the same as the recipe for the culture taught to us in schools. When defining Culture and Diversity, it can be inferred that different groups have people from different social and ethnic backgrounds together. Culture is a broad definition of traditions, social behavior, and norms in a specific country. It is not static and changes for a long time based on the learnings and influences coming from different cultures. Human beings born in that culture grew up as a robot of that...

     I witnessed close to the migration of refugees from Syria to Turkey, starting in 2015.  I know when those desperate people who escape the war crossed the border with a suitcase or with sacks on their backs, and the Turkish people opened their doors and hosted them. I can remember what those people passed through and the suffering of the refugee children in our school.      I can understand migration and the difficulties of migration as an immigrant. When I moved to the USA in 2016, I had the chance to carry all my home and personal belongings, and I could bring everything I valued here.       Therefore, I could only take three things with me made me think more and more about the importance of those things. If I had to move in this way, I would take my family's photo album with me because I would explain that my family is essential to me and that I want to keep them with me wherever I go.       The other thin...

     My research simulation is about the positive impact of child-centered education approaches applied in early childhood education on children's social, emotional, mental, language, and cognitive development. This is important in the early childhood education field, as many schools use a child-centered curriculum. Most parents also prefer this kind of education.      I think that a quality, well-prepared early childhood education has a strong effect on children's development and learning. I can see in my literature reviews that there are severe studies on this subject. Many international studies reveal that child-centered early childhood education and care are beneficial for developing language, reading, mathematics, and socio-emotional skills that form the basis for later school success. These data indicate that practices that will support children's development and learning are directly related to qualified early childhood education.     ...