We Are the Change We Seek - Iheoma U. Iruka, Tonia R. Durden, Kerry-Ann Escayg, Stephanie M. Curenton

We Are the Change We Seek

Advancing Racial Justice in Early Care and Education
Buch | Softcover
168 Seiten
2023
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-6802-0 (ISBN)
40,95 inkl. MwSt
A timely book to 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.
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 culturally responsive, anti-bias, anti-racist (CRABAR) framework. 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:




Presents a problem and asks readers to discuss how they would resolve it.
"Educators' Corner" encourages teachers to think about how they are a product of the beliefs, values, and social-political history of their cultural group.
"Now What?" sections help teachers to problem-solve how they might react during difficult situations.

Iheoma U. Iruka is a research professor in public policy and the founding director of the Equity Research Action Coalition at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Tonia R. Durden is a clinical professor and birth through five program coordinator in the Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education at Georgia State University. Kerry-Ann Escayg is an associate professor of teacher education at the University of Nebraska–Omaha. Stephanie M. Curenton is a professor and director of the Center on the Ecology of Early Development program at Boston University.

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Early Childhood Education Series
Mitarbeit Herausgeber (Serie): Nancy File
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 229 mm
Gewicht 238 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Vorschulpädagogik
ISBN-10 0-8077-6802-2 / 0807768022
ISBN-13 978-0-8077-6802-0 / 9780807768020
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