Persona Dolls

All our Persona Dolls are culturally authentic, non-sexist and appropriately dressed 70cm cloth dolls. We identify their ethnicity and gender to make ordering easier but when you create personas the ethnicity and gender you give your Dolls may be different.

Please note a plumper version of the Dolls is available @ £65.00 plus vat and p&p.

African/African Caribbean girl Dark brown skin, braided black hair.
Mixed parentage girl Medium beige skin, black hair in bunches.
European girl Light beige skin, short straight ginger hair in a fringe.
Chinese girl Beige skin, straight black hair in bunches.
Irish Traveller girl Light beige skin, two plaits (brown, blonde or ginger).
Asian girl Beige skin, long black hair. Western dress or salwar kamize.
African/African Caribbean boy Dark brown skin, curly black hair.
Mixed Parentage boy Medium beige skin, black hair.
European boy Light beige skin. Brown, blonde or ginger hair.
Chinese boy Beige skin, spiky black hair.
Romany Traveller boy Medium beige skin, short brown hair.
Asian boy Beige skin, straight black hair.
Sikh boy Beige skin, hair in a ramaal, western dress or salwar kurta.

Other Resources

Wooden wheelchair for Persona Dolls Crafted especially for Persona Dolls (not intended for children).
Persona Dolls in Action video and support book Persona Dolls and their stories offer an enjoyable and non-threatening way to implement inclusive practice. This video and support book provide practitioners, students, lecturers and trainers with an accessible guide to using Persona Dolls. Watch and enjoy children actively responding to the Dolls, watch the Dolls encouraging children to empathise, feel good about themselves and to problem solve, watch students making Dolls, read about what makes the Dolls and their stories so special and raise awareness with the exercises in the support book.
Celebrating Diversity: Inclusion in Practice A new video and support book based on the principle that good practice = anti-discrimatory practice. Click here to download the flyer and ordering information - you may need to wait a few minutes for the pictures to appear.
Citizenship For All: respect, rights, responsibility A user-friendly, full-of-good-ideas pack for teachers, students, lecturers and trainers.Teachers using a range of learning strategies in rural and urban Schools engage and encourage children at KS1&2 to reflect on and discuss a range of issues. Their opinions are treated with respect and they are encouraged to respect the views and ideas of others. Skilled teachers ensure that citizenship education is active, thought-provoking and anti-discriminatory. Click here to download the order form. It may take a few minutes to appear.
Combating Discrimination: Persona Dolls in Action Published by Trentham Books. It is written by Babette Brown in a user-friendly style and filled with rich material based upon research and observation. It reminds the reader how early our children's attitudes are formed and how persona dolls are used to encourage positive attitudes and behaviour. Readers are offered practical advice about selecting dolls and creating their personas as well as suggestions for developing and telling their stories. A list of useful addresses and resources is also included.
Unlearning Discrimination in the Early Years Published by Trentham Books and written by Babette Brown for everyone who is concerned about equity and justice for all children. It is laid out and written in a clear and accessible style and is succinct and incisive, whether talking about theory or practice. It is perhaps unusual to find poetry in this type of book but the poems help to substantiate the arguments. The exercises are designed to build on practitioners' present knowledge, skills and understanding and encourage them to evaluate and reflect on their own anti-discriminatory practice. There are indispensible resource lists at the back of the book.
Hats Poster Celebrate our Differences Celebrate our Similarities. This large full colour poster shows 56 photographs of different children all wearing fun hats.
Hats Snap Card Game 36 children wearing one of 9 fun hats make up the game. 'Snap' is called out when there is a match between two different children wearing the same hat.

Order

In the United Kingdom: Click here to download our order form in Adobe Portable Document Format. Print, complete and mail or fax it to us. (If the order form opens in your browser window, you can click the "Back" button to return to this page.)

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In South Africa: For information, prices and to order South African Persona Dolls and other materials contact: PersonaDolls@jaywalk.com or write to Persona Doll Training, PO Box 91, Kalk Bay, 7990.
Tel: 021 788 4365
Cell: 082 565 5552

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