Cultural Competence In Early Childhood Education

In our society, family cultural, and they difference should be respected in every early childhood program. Therefore, in order to maintain this significance, an early childhood educator should learn ways to relate to every child, and family. After reading this article, I learned that cultural competence is about our determination and action to build understanding between people. In otherwise, we as educator, need to be respectful and open to different cultural perspectives, strength cultural security and works towards equality in opportunity (Livingstone, 2016). I agree, because have to learn how to appreciate others beliefs and values. Therefore, we can learn how to teach and adapt to our children we serve. The author also states that relationship building is essential to cultural competence and is based on the foundations of understanding each other’s expectations and attitudes (Livingstone, 2016). She felt that we should consequently build on the strength of each other’s knowledge as well as to use a wide range of community …show more content…
The ways in which our values and attitudes may impact the way we think or feel. However, when we start our interactions with positive attitude about our families, we can see more positive in them(Children,Harvard.edu). In compare, when we approach our interactions with negative attitudes, we are more possible to see fault, this can lead to negative outcome about children (Children,Harvard.edu). Lastly, stated in the article, when we start with Strengths-based Attitudes to express our belief, our families can make better grow. However, we also have to be ready to strive for better outcomes