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October 8, 1980 Tel. 985-2131

Trying to combat prejudice

North Shore program aimed at 10 year olds .

before it seeds

By CAROLE STAFFORD

Exploring Likenesses and
Differences is the title of a
series of programs _ for
children, developed by
retired school teacher Bette
Hood, which is designed to
provide the kind of in-
formation about the people
of Canada which will foster
positive attitudes and
combat prejudice before it
seeds.

Hood’s programs, which
employ film, discussion and
a variety of activities, are
geared to 10-year-olds — an
age at which a number of
studies have shown that
children “start stereo-typing
people and are most
ready to view people as
similar and are especially
friendly even to those
viewed as dissimilar.”

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SINGING ALONG WITH a Buffy St. Marte record, during an informative talk at the N. Van. City Library on the

Weat Coast and other North American Indiam, bs teacher Betty Hood (R), Kerry Dawa, 6, and Allison Cawiey, 7.
who were delighted by the show.

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We are born without attitudes of any kind. Our
infant minds, insatiable sponges of curiosity, are
eager to absorb as much as possible of the flood af
information that inundates us from day one. From
some of this infomation we will develop attitudes
of racial prejudice towards people who are dif-
ferent. But from other information, we will learn
to understand and appreciate the likenesses and
differences of the people who share our world.

Hood says, “Rather than
having teachers trying to
counter and_ reverse
acquired negative attitudes
in older pupils, it was my
contention that it would be
preferable to work on in-
culcating positive attitudes
in the early and more for-
mative years.”

Under the auspices of the
North Vancouver School
Board and a federal grant
from the department of state
multicultural program,
Hood has presented her 12-
unit social studies program
to all the grade 5 classes in
North Vancouver and is now
offering the series on a
volunteer basis at the North
Van City Library.

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