The Anti-Bias Stories blog is a community space for educators and teachers to share their anti-bias stories of practice, policy, professional engagement and learning. This blog is edited by Kathy Gelding, Dr Kathryn Bown and Dr Red Ruby Scarlet. If you would like to submit a blog piece, please email it to: foundation@sjiec.org or if you would like to be a guest editor, please contact us on the same email address.

Care and Social Justice: questions, questions, and more questions

I’ve been thinking a lot about care over the past two years. So much so, that I did…

Social Justice and Equity – a Journey toward ‘flourishing with difference’ at ECMS

At the 20th Social Justice in Early Childhood Conference on beautiful Gadigal Land in July, ECMS Victoria was…

Anti- Bias Award 2025 Nominations Open

The time to reflect on practice is now! We have officially opened the nomination process for the Anti-Bias…

SJIEC 20th Conference ~ Annual Rose Kelly Teacher’s Panel ~ Windsor Community Children’s Centre

For those that participated in our 20th annual conference, you will have been inspired by the team at…

Anti~Bias Award Winners 2024

In celebration of the Social Justice in Early Childhood’s 20th Conference, there were 4 Anti~Bias Award recipients in…

SJIEC on Redbubble

Social Justice In Early Childhood Have Set Up Their Own Redbubble Store Have you ever wanted to create…

The Original Learning Approach

Creating Safe and Brave Spaces for Autonomy Part 2 Play is another word that I think we need…

The Original Learning Approach

Creating Safe and Brave Spaces for Autonomy Part 1 The Original Learning Approach is something I came up…

Anti-Bias Award – A Recipients Perspective; What winning the anti-bias award means to me

Cath Gillespie and Kirby Barker from Evans Head-Woodburn Pre-school talk about what it meant to receive the Anti-Bias Award in 2020. Kirby Winning the 2020 Anti Bias award for…

Anti-Bias Award – A Recipients Perspective, The Benefits of Putting in a Nomination

When I was first approached about putting a nomination in for the Anti-Bias award I went through a process that I’m sure every educator would have gone through which is one full…