The Lake Park Lutheran Church Ethnic Diversity Task Force invites you to….
How Children Learn About Race and How Adults Can Help Saturday, April 21, 2018
Lake Park Lutheran Church
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Presentation by Dr. Erin Winkler, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Associate Professor of Africology and Urban Studies
Shared meal and small group conversation
Objectives:
Presentation and meal are open to the public.
- Describe the (often counterintuitive) ways ideas about race form for children; how these ideas are tied to young children’s cognitive development and environments; and why all of this matters.
- Discuss specific things adults can do to counter the development of unintentional/implicit bias in children and youth.