Full Description
This timely book will help early care and education teachers, leaders, administrators, coaches, and staff deliver on the promise of high-quality education for all children. The authors provide inspiration, practical tools, and resources through the antibias, antiracist, culturally responsive practices framework (ABAR CRP). This teacher-friendly text shows how to engage in self-inquiry and evaluate current classroom practices while embedding new ones that advance the learning and well-being of children, especially those from minoritized and poor communities. Readers will find tools and assessments to support the implementation of culturally grounded practices that will improve outcomes for diverse children in early childhood settings and systems. This book connects history to current events, supports self-inquiry, encourages a shift in mindset and, most importantly, offers guidance for creating affirming and joyful spaces for young children to learn.
Book Features:
"Design an Activity for Children" section asks teachers to create a classroom activity incorporating the information they have learned.
"Discussions About Real-World Dilemmas" presents a problem and asks readers to discuss how they would resolve it.
"Exercises That Promote Critical Reflection" encourage teachers to think about how they are a product of the beliefs, values, and social-political history of their cultural group.
"What Would You Do" reflective questions that help teachers to problem-solve how they might react during difficult situations.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
How to Use This Book 2
1. Racism's Past, Present, and Future 3
What Is Racism? 3
The Effects of Racism in the United States 11
An Intersectionality Lens 18
Now What? 21
2. Connecting Culturally Responsive, Anti-Bias, and Anti-Racist (CRABAR) Practices 23
Anti-Racism and Anti-Bias 24
Terminology Matters: Defining Bias and Racism 25
Racism in Early Childhood Education 26
Introducing the CRABAR Framework 27
Now What? 38
3. Creating CRABAR Learning Environments 41
Spaces for Belonging: Model Learning Environments 42
The Classroom Environment: A Review 43
Reflection on Afrocentric Classroom Environments 44
Prepare to Develop Anti-Racist Classroom Environments 45
Now What? 58
4. Developing a CRABAR Assessment View 61
Purposes of Assessment 62
Using a CRABAR Lens for Assessment of Classroom Quality 68
Emerging CRABAR Assessments 75
Now What? 79
How Assessments Should be Used 81
5. Valuing the Early Childhood Workforce to Sustain CRABAR Practices 83
The Vast Role and Limited Compensation for ECE Professionals 84
Low and Inequitable Wages for ECE Professionals Explained by Legacy of Racism and Sexism 85
Now What? 97
6. Using the RICHER Approach to Elevate the CRABAR Practices 99
Deference to Whiteness in ECE Settings 101
The RICHER Framework 103
Now What? 116
Conclusion 121
Resources 123
References 125
Index 143
About the Authors 155
Land Acknowledgement 155
Body Acknowledgment 157
