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Understanding Diversity

¾ Telling stories

¾ Encouraging fair play
¾ Encouraging friendships Notes
¾ Avoiding gender-based work distribution

TERMINAL EXERCISE

1. What do you understand by the term diversity? What types of diversity
have you observed in children in your neighbourhood? What are the main
factors leading to diversity?
2. What steps will you take to ensure gender equitable participation of
children in a preschool?
3. How do childhood experiences get affected by cultural and gender issues?
4. What are the implications of multilingualism for an ECCE centre? List ways
of accepting and respecting diversity due to multilingualism.

5. What steps will you take to overcome the home-school language divide
while working with tribal children?

ANSWERS TO INTEXT QUESTIONS

20.1

(a) Caste: It is a system of classification determined by birth.

(b) Race: Race is division of human being on the basis of physical features
(c) Multilingualism: The act of using, or promoting the use of, multiple
languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers.

(d) Ethnicity: Belonging to a social group with common national and cultural
traditions.

(e) Gender: Refers to social, cultural identity associated with being a boy or
a girl/male/female.

20.2

a) False
b) True
c) True

d) True
e) False

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