Then the penny seemed to drop for her. Another example is one of the classrooms I visited where all the pictures on the wall were of white stereotypical families with a mother, father, granny and grandpa. The learning community in that school come from a wide range of cultural, linguistic and religious backgrounds - let alone social experiences. There must be another way to talk about families. In fact, there must be another way to talk about the plurality of human identity.
Human identity is no different.
Cultures shift, languages grow and change, the roles of men and women blend and move with the times, people's expressions of who they are and the groups they belong to keep changing. Perhaps the starting point of good practice lies in our passionate desire to be child centred and to create a learning environment in which children feel safe, accepted and valued. A place in which children believe in themselves and are free to learn and to challenge what appears to be the norm. Setting up such an environment requires educators who are empathetic, who demonstrate a level of sensitivity, and who attempt to understand the world of a child. I remember going to look at a Christmas tree with my daughter at a local shopping mall when she was two years old.