Editing Anti-bias curriculum (section)

{{Short description|Educational plan meant to reduce perceived prejudice in education}}
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The '''anti-bias curriculum''' is a curriculum which attempts to challenge [[prejudice]]s such as [[racism]], [[sexism]], [[ableism]], [[ageism]], [[weightism]], [[homophobia]], [[classism]], [[colorism]], [[heightism]], [[Bias against left-handed people|handism]], [[religious discrimination]] and other forms of [[kyriarchy]]. The approach is favoured by [[civil rights]] organisations such as the [[Anti-Defamation League]].<ref name=ADL1 />  Bias refers to violation of equality based on equal opportunities ([[Equal opportunity|formal equality]]) or based on [[equality of outcome]]s for different groups, also called [[substantive equality]].<ref name="EU">[https://doi.org/10.1177/1358229120927947 De Vos, M. (2020). The European Court of Justice and the march towards substantive equality in European Union anti-discrimination law. International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, 20(1), 62-87.]</ref>

The '''[[Anti-racism|anti-racist]] curriculum''' is part of a wider [[social constructivist]] movement in the various societies of the [[Western world|Western World]], where many scientific worldviews are seen as manifestations of Western cultures who enjoy a privileged position over societies from the "[[Global South]]",<ref>Ending Academic Imperialism: a Beginning", [[C. K. Raju]]</ref> along with claiming that there is a [[sociocultural]] aspect to education, i.e. that the studies of these subjects in Western societies have usually exhibited [[Racial bias|racial]] and [[cultural bias]],<ref>"Is Science Western in Origin?", [[C. K. Raju]]</ref> and that they focus too much on "[[Western canon|dead white men]]", especially in mathematics.<ref name="The Politics of Anti-Racist Mathematics" /><ref group=note>See ''[[ethnomathematics]]''.</ref>