Full Description
This comprehensive and timely text explains the need for, and application of, anti-racist teaching with children birth-age 8.
Systemic racism remains a longstanding social, economic, and cultural reality in the United States, Canada, and beyond. By actively implementing the anti-racist strategies in this book, early childhood educators can create learning environments that are not only inclusive and equitable, but that also help young children develop a strong understanding of race and racism so they can become agents of social change.
Moving beyond theorizing anti-racism and whiteness, chapters provide actionable guidance to help readers identify and resist racism in early years teaching. A diverse group of over 35 contributors offer insights on children's racial knowledge, classroom practices that cultivate children's racial pride and agency, anti-racist teacher preparation, and more. This valuable teaching resource will help readers take direct and intentional action against racist behaviors, practices, policies, and beliefs to dismantle and interrupt racism within and beyond their early learning environments.
Book Features:
Explores why anti-racist curricula and practices are needed in early childhood classrooms now more than ever.
Offers examples of anti-racist teaching strategies such as how to choose multicultural books, find alternative spaces and time to challenge whiteness, use Afro-centric curricula, and make use of digital technology.
Incorporates creative expressions such as fiction, poetry, photo stories, and childhood reflections.
Looks at recent applications of anti-racist pedagogy to teacher preparation and professional development training.
Advocates for an anti-racist early childhood education that explicitly names race and racism and works toward reconstructing early years systems, policies, and practices.
Contents
Contents
Foreword Nathaniel Bryan ix
Introduction: An Urgent Call for Anti-Racism in Early Childhood Education 1
Kerry-Ann Escayg, Flóra Faragó, and Terry Husband
PART I: RESISTING WHITENESS AND IMPLEMENTING ANTI-RACISM IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
1. Disrupting Whiteness Through an Early Childhood Teacher Educator Critical Community of Practice (CCoP) 19
Azaria Cunningham, Allison Sterling Henward, Michelle N. Brown, and Quiana M. Jackson
2. Using Anti-Racist Pedagogy in EC Teacher Preparation Programs 31
Oona Fontanella-Nothom, Amanda M. Welch, and Juliette M. Lahey
3. Empowering Narratives of Black and Brown ECE Educators 45
Dannaé L. Orisamolade and Crystal M. Timmons
4. Recognizing the Contributions of Black Women and Amplifying Their Voices to Transform Early Childhood Education 55
Dannaé L. Orisamolade
5. Anti-Racist Approaches to Early Childhood Education Program Evaluation 63
Caroline F. D. Black
PART II: ANTI-RACISM VIA CURRICULA: BOOKS AND LITERACY PRACTICES
6. Confronting Race and Representation in Early Childhood Education 77
Tara Kirton and La Toya C. K. Caton
7. Resisting Curriculum Erasure: A Child-Initiated Advocacy Project for Asian American Bilingual Picture Books 89
Alisha Nguyen
8. Unveiling Whiteness in Early Childhood Education: Exploring Student-Created Children's Books 103
Kimberly L. Davidson
9. Centering Anti-Racist Pedagogy in Early Years Literacy in the Ontario Public Education System 115
Hardeep Shergill
10. Reimagining Curriculum as Homeplace: A Case for Africentricity in Pre-Kindergarten 131
Karen Murray, Rukiya Mohamed, and Stephanie Fearon
PART III: ANTI-RACIST PEDAGOGY: REIMAGINING DISCIPLINE PRACTICES
11. Assessing the Impact of Whiteness in Shaping Discipline and Liberatory Pedagogy in Early Care and Education Settings 151
Elizabeth Fajemirokun, Magdalen Deschane, Nina Smith, Wynetta Y. Lee, and Royel M. Johnson
12. Creating a Blueprint for Eliminating Suspensions, Expulsions, and Exclusions in Early Care and Education in North Carolina and Beyond 161
Sherrell Hicklen House, Valerie Jarvis McMillan, Nina Smith, Jennifer Mendoza Beasley, Megan Vinh, and Brenda K. Williamson
13. "I Want Them to Know . . .": A Black Mother's Poetic Resistance to Preschool Pushout 171
Shannon W. Martin Dantzler
14. Resistance to White Supremacy and the Struggle to Foster Black Joy in the (Early) Education of Black Girls 179
Jamie L. Palmer-Asemota
PART IV: LOVING BLACKNESS: RACIAL PRIDE AND RESISTANCE
15. Using Digital Images to Foster Resistance in Early Childhood Classrooms 193
Nakisha Whittington
16. An Autoethnographic Afrofuturist Experience of Dance Education 203
Quiana M. Jackson
17. Young Children's Interrogation of White School Spaces 209
Hafizat Sanni-Anibire
PART V: ANTI-RACIST PARENT AND FAMILY ENGAGEMENT
18. A Black Mother's Love Letter to Navigating Whiteness in Early Childhood Education 223
Prilly Bicknell-Hersco
19. Help That Is Stressful to Black Mothers 231
Amittia Parker
20. A Light Through the "Fog of Whiteness": Bridging Anti-Racist Early Childhood Education With Anti-Racist Parenting 239
Kendall Aroldo Lee Brown
Endnotes 255
Index 257
About the Editors and Contributors 267
