C-ID Descriptor

ECE 230 C-ID Course Descriptor

OER Textbook

The Role of Equity and Diversity in Early Childhood Education by Krischa Esquivel, Emily Elam, Jennifer Paris, and Maricela Tafoya (College of the Canyons)

Original book in Word and PDF

Derivative of the book that can be used at any college in Word and PDF

This book is available in LibreText.

Additional OER/ZTC Options

The following are some additional resources that faculty can use to teach the course. Some may be OER and others may copyrighted resources faculty can use to teach the course with no associated costs for digital access (often referred to a Zero Textbook Cost, or ZTC).

There is a small portion on culture in this Lumen Course on Child Development is licensed CC BY 4.0
The Teaching Tolerance website by the Southern Poverty Law Center provides free resources to educators (including readings, activities and teaching strategies). They are copyrighted.
Portions of Foundations and Current Issues of Early Childhood Education wikibook (which is licensed CC-BY-SA 3.0) have content related to diversity in ECE,
- Chapter 3 - Differentiation in Education
- Chapter 5 - Multiculturalism in The Early Childhood Classroom
Understanding Assessment: Effects of Cultural Bias on Childhood Development is a reading by Dr. Catherine (Cate) Crowley. It is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (which means it cannot be altered, but it can be reused without modification)
This course on Intercultural Education which includes content on intercultural relationships, cultural differences, social conflict, cultural spaces, cultural competence is licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US.
Additional resources can be found in the Teaching in a Diverse Society thread on the Early Childhood Education OER Collaboration Google Group. The licensing of these resources varies and should be confirmed before use.