About the Webinar Series
The California Department of Social Services, Child Care and Development Division (CDSS-CCDD), in partnership with WestEd, hosted a webinar series that focuses on updates from the book, Infant/Toddler Caregiving: A Guide to Social-Emotional Growth and Socialization, now in its third edition.
The series highlighted the significant work of infant/toddler care providers and teachers in developing relationships with individual children and their families, an important first step in supporting the children’s social-emotional growth and socialization. An understanding of the family, culture, and lived experience is essential for care providers and teachers in providing responsive interactions as a partner and guide for each child as they learn to regulate themselves, develop feelings of belonging, and relate to others with empathy, wonder, and connection.
Part 1: Resisting the Margins: Advancing an Imperative To Attend To Race and Culture and the Social-Emotional Growth and Learning of Infants and Toddlers
Moderator: Elizabeth Crocker
Presenter: Eva Marie Shivers
May 18, 2023
Culturally responsive care, with teachers attuned to each child’s culture and applying anti-bias approaches, supports social-emotional development for very young children. But how do we get there? This session explores how the journey begins by centering our work in self-knowledge and meaningful partnerships with families. We introduce one of the new chapters from the Infant/Toddler Caregiving book, “Resisting the Margins: Advancing an Imperative to Attend to Race and Culture and the Social-Emotional Growth and Learning of Infants and Toddlers.” Considerations are given on poverty and racism, and how these impact the well-being of children, families, and early-childhood educators. The session closes with an exploration of developmental processes for cultural and racial socialization for the very young.