Nursery World - A Unique Child: Inclusion

Using Persona Dolls helps explain to children why differences between them and their peers should be appreciated. Trainer Babette Brown reveals how it works with an interactive story example

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A Unique Child: Persona Dolls

PRIME MINISTER Theresa May has said, ‘Hate crime has no place in Britain’, but attacks against people who are perceived as different have increased since the Brexit referendum. Typical was the case of a mother, with a child in a buggy, who was told, ‘Take your Polish bastard back home to Poland.’

Children pick up negative attitudes towards people who are different from them. Some will stand up for their bullied peers, while others will injure, tease and harass them. So how should early years practitioners respond?

Interactive Persona Doll storytelling sessions help children to unlearn any prejudices that they have picked up and feel good about themselves, while appreciating the differences and similarities between their peers and themselves.

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