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The Persona Doll Project: Promoting Diversity Awareness Among Preservice Teachers Through Storytelling, Mary Ellin Logue, V. Susan Bennett-Armistead, Soojoung Kim
The Persona Doll Project: Promoting Diversity Awareness Among Preservice Teachers Through Storytelling, Mary Ellin Logue, V. Susan Bennett-Armistead, Soojoung Kim
Child Development and Family Relations Faculty Scholarship
The Persona Doll Project describes an experiential intervention with undergraduate preservice teachers designed to increase awareness about diversity and apply this awareness to curriculum planning and advocacy for children. Sixty-three undergraduate students in a social studies methods class were each assigned a persona doll for the semester whose background differed from their own. Each was charged with becoming the advocate for the child, represented by the doll, by telling informed stories that would help other students better understand a level of diversity beyond what they knew from their own lives. Students heightened awareness of their own assumptions through narrative, inquiry …
Visual Supports Checklist, V. Susan Bennett-Armistead, Bonnie Blagojevic, Erika Neal, Billie Taylor
Visual Supports Checklist, V. Susan Bennett-Armistead, Bonnie Blagojevic, Erika Neal, Billie Taylor
Early Childhood Resources
The Visual Supports Checklist is based on a review of current literature, practical knowledge, and reported experiences from early childhood educators on the topic of visual supports.