Equity Literacy Survey |
Preliminary Information
PRIVACY STATEMENT
No personally identifiable information is recorded. BCCACCS follows guidelines and processes to safeguard data holdings. All BCACCS employees have taken an oath to protect your information, and only approved individuals can access the data. All responses will remain anonymous. Aggregated data may be used to share population-level information to fulfill reporting requirements of funding agreements between BCACCS and our funders.
ABOUT THIS SURVEY
As part of the An Indigenous Approach to Equity Literacy in Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) project, the BC Aboriginal Child Care Society (BCACCS) is exploring, developing, and testing innovative resources for Indigenous and non-Indigenous educators and early learners (0 to 8 years) that will meet the need for anti-racist and social justice pedagogies in ELCC, especially as they relate to cultural inequities and systemic racism faced by Indigenous children in BC.
This survey is a foundational component of this work. It will provide BCACCS with important information on family and educator experiences of racism in ELCC spaces and classrooms. The information provided by you through this survey will support BCACCS in creating curriculum that will empower educators with the skills and resources to critically reflect on and build a teaching practice in early learning and elementary school settings, ensuring that ELCC spaces and classrooms honour Indigenous children’s, families’, and communities’ history, human rights, culture, identity, and place within Indigenous Nations and schools.
DEFINITIONS
Racism:
No personally identifiable information is recorded. BCCACCS follows guidelines and processes to safeguard data holdings. All BCACCS employees have taken an oath to protect your information, and only approved individuals can access the data. All responses will remain anonymous. Aggregated data may be used to share population-level information to fulfill reporting requirements of funding agreements between BCACCS and our funders.
ABOUT THIS SURVEY
As part of the An Indigenous Approach to Equity Literacy in Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) project, the BC Aboriginal Child Care Society (BCACCS) is exploring, developing, and testing innovative resources for Indigenous and non-Indigenous educators and early learners (0 to 8 years) that will meet the need for anti-racist and social justice pedagogies in ELCC, especially as they relate to cultural inequities and systemic racism faced by Indigenous children in BC.
This survey is a foundational component of this work. It will provide BCACCS with important information on family and educator experiences of racism in ELCC spaces and classrooms. The information provided by you through this survey will support BCACCS in creating curriculum that will empower educators with the skills and resources to critically reflect on and build a teaching practice in early learning and elementary school settings, ensuring that ELCC spaces and classrooms honour Indigenous children’s, families’, and communities’ history, human rights, culture, identity, and place within Indigenous Nations and schools.
DEFINITIONS
Racism:
Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to be an Anti-Racist, defines aspects of racism in the following ways:
"A racist idea is any idea that suggests one racial group is inferior to or superior to another racial group in any way. Racist ideas argue that the inferiorities and superiorities of racial groups explain racial inequities in society." (p. 20)
"A racist policy is any measure that produces or sustains racial inequity between racial groups. By policy, I mean written and unwritten laws, rules, procedures, processes, regulations, and guidelines that govern people." (p. 18)
Equity Literacy:
"A racist idea is any idea that suggests one racial group is inferior to or superior to another racial group in any way. Racist ideas argue that the inferiorities and superiorities of racial groups explain racial inequities in society." (p. 20)
"A racist policy is any measure that produces or sustains racial inequity between racial groups. By policy, I mean written and unwritten laws, rules, procedures, processes, regulations, and guidelines that govern people." (p. 18)
Equity Literacy:
Equity literacy is an approach to addressing racism in ELCC spaces and classrooms that involves moving from cultural competence or diversity awareness to transformative teaching practices rooted in social justice. Such practices strive to dismantle the structures, ideas, and policies that reinforce racial and other inequities, by preparing educators to recognize and address even the subtlest forms of bias, inequity, and oppression related to race, class, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, language, religion, immigration status, and other factors
(“Equity Literacy: Definition and Abilities”: https://www.equityliteracy.org/equity-literacy-definition).