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Training with Persona Dolls

USING PERSONAL DOLLS CAN PROVIDE EARLY YEARS EDUCATORS WITH A PRACTICAL AND FUN DAY'S TRAINING WITH LOTS OF IDEAS YOU CAN TAKE BACK FOR IMMEDIATE USE

Personal Dolls Training will provide speakers and facilitators.

CERES HAS FOUND THAT PERSONA DOLLS SEMINARS ASSISTS EARLY YEARS ESTABLISHMENTS ( INCLUDING PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP NURSERIES) TO MEET ASPECTS OF THE RACE RELATIONS (AMENDMENT ACT) 2000

Target audience: Those who work in education or social care settings ( both public and private) with 3 - 8 year olds ( eg: teachers, social workers, play workers, nursery assistant classroom assistants )

• Equality trainers interested in developing techniques of working with very young people on equality issues
• Those who have responsibility for policy and/or staff development for teachers and workers in the early education sector
• Teacher education students
• Social work students
• Nursery nurse students
• After school club workers
• Community and voluntary organisations providing a service to 3- 8 year olds

For more information about Persona Dolls Training, visit their website at http://www.persona-doll-training.org/

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Books by Babette Brown, one of the founders of Persona Dolls Training in the UK

Combating Discrimination: Persona Dolls in Action published by Trentham Books

Discovering how astonishingly effective Persona Dolls can be in training young children - and the people who work with them - to understand and unlearn their prejudices inspired Babette Brown to write this book. Attitudes and prejudices are forming in children by the age of three, and research shows that these are likely to be negative towards people who are visibly different from themselves.

Relatively new to the UK, Persona Dolls have been successfully used in Australia and the US to challenge the values, stereotypes and prejudices that underpin racism and other social inequalities. They can provide an enjoyable, innovative and non-threatening way to build on children's sense of identity, self-esteem and confidence and to encourage them to respond to others with empathy, respect and sensitivity.

This book is a guide to how Persona Dolls can be used. Chapters explore:

• promoting empathy
• Persona Dolls in action
• a different kind of storytelling - and the stories to tell
• involving parents
• working and training with Persona Dolls
• reinforcing what the children learn from the Dolls
• resourcing for change

Recommended for Early Years advisers, lecturers and in-service trainers, students, practitioners and parents.

Unlearning Discrimination in the Early Years published by Trentham Books.

This is the first book in early years education that deals with all areas of discrimination, and provides practical guidance on key issues of language, culture, gender and disability. It challenges the misconceptions that young children cannot understand issues to do with fairness, or with colour or disability or homophobia. The author explains relevant theory and research, and provides examples of good practice. In her lively accounts of young children talking, Babette Brown illustrates how capable they are of thinking for themselves when encouraged to do so -- and how readily they absorb prevailing stereotypical notions when they are not.

This is essential reading for teacher educators, teachers, and anyone involved with children in kindergarten or pre-school environments.

Babette's books and other useful resources can be purchased from Trentham Books on www.trentham-books.co.uk or Trentham Books Limited Westview House, 734 London Road, Stoke on Trent, ST4 5NP, United Kingdom Telephone +44 (0) 1782 745567 Fax +44 (0) 1782 745553 e-mail tb@trentham-books.co.uk

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