{"id":226119,"date":"2023-09-05T17:27:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T17:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecircleeducation.org\/?p=226119"},"modified":"2023-09-11T18:34:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T18:34:50","slug":"book-about-stereotypes-helps-kids-combat-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecircleeducation.org\/2023\/09\/05\/book-about-stereotypes-helps-kids-combat-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Book about stereotypes helps kids combat bias"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Identifying and questioning stereotypes, bias, and prejudice has been part of our educational programs since we started to develop our social-emotional learning framework for kids and youth twenty-five years ago. It turns out that stereotypes start to take form in our brains at a really young age and can seriously affect students\u2019 performances and the areas they choose to study. What can we do as parents and teachers to help kids (and their brains) to be less biased? We talked about this with Tanya Lloyd Kyi<\/a> who wrote a book about stereotypes for children and youth: This is Your Brain on Stereotypes; How Science is Tackling Unconscious Bias. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Our brains don\u2019t hold stereotypes when we are born, we absorb them from our environment long before we understand what we\u2019re doing. American researchers found out in 2017 that kids begin to pick up stereotypes more quickly around the time they start kindergarten. \u201cWe definitely start to pick up stereotypes early and I think we continue to build on them as we progress,\u201d says Tanya Lloyd Kyi, who has written more than thirty books for children and youth about topics related to science, pop culture and history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Girls or boys, who are smarter? When five-year-old boys and girls are asked this question, the girls think they are particularly brilliant and the boys think boys are geniuses. Things begin to shift around the age of six. \u201cWhen boys and girls were asked the same question a year later, suddenly they all said the boys were smarter. Even the girls who were doing better in school.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nGirls or boys, who are smarter?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n