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“Everything in me calls on me to teach”    

– Louise Derman Sparks

There is a professor I have become acquainted with while being enrolled here at Walden University, taking the Master of Science in Early childhood Studies courses.  This is a person I would even model my communication style after from time to time

That One such person is Professor Louise Derman- Sparks. I really love how she has such a soothing way about her communication. What she says and the way she says it just draws you in to her and the subject she speaks about.  She presents a pleasant expression on her face when communicating also coupled with wisdom and knowledge in the field of early childhood.  The one thing I must mention is that to me, she exudes tremendous passion when she speaks about the field of early childhood. It is not displayed in a boisterous fashion or a loud openly charismatic way, but it seems to me that it is communicated with love and purposeful intent because she is talking about what God has put in her to do… to love young children and educate them through nurturing their special unique little selves.

 

Louise Derman Sparks Professor Emeritus Pacific Oaks College

Research Areas: Louise Derman-Sparks’ research areas of interest are race and education and multicultural education. Activities & Honors: Louise Derman-Sparks is a long-time human development faculty member at Pacific Oaks College, now Professor Emeritus. Previously, Ms. Derman-Sparks worked with young children and families as an early childhood education teacher and program director. She is the author and co-author of several books, including: Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children, (National Association for the Education of Young Children); Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism: A Developmental Approach (Teachers College Press); In Our Own Way: How Anti-Bias Work Shapes Our Lives and Future Vision, Current Work: Lessons from the Culturally Relevant Anti-Bias Education Leadership Project (Redleaf Press), and numerous articles and book chapters. Her most recent book, co-authored with Dr. Patricia Ramsey, is titled “What If All the Kids are White?” Anti-bias/ Multicultural Education with Young Children and Families, (Teachers College Press, April 2006). Ms. Derman-Sparks speaks, conducts workshops and consults widely throughout the United States and internationally. A former member of the Governing Board of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (1998-2002), she currently serves on the National Board of Crossroads Ministry: An Interfaith & Community- Based Anti-Racism Training Organization and on the National Diversity Advisory Council of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Ms. Derman-Sparks is the mother of a son and daughter, Douglass and Holly Sparks, and has been an activist for social justice for 40 years.