Educating for Social Justice in Early Childhood

ISBN-13: 9780367246983 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 188 str.

Shirley Kessler; Beth Blue Swadener

Opis

Bringing together scholarship and examples from practice, this book explores ways in which early childhood curriculum – including classroom practices and community contexts – can more actively engage with a range of social justice issues, democratic principles, and anti-oppressive practices.

Spis treści

List of Contributors  Foreword [Cinthya Saavedra]  Acknowledgements  Series Introduction [Nicola Yelland] Introduction [Shirley Kessler and Beth Blue Swadener]  Part I: Voices of Children, Teachers and Families  1.  Immigrant Children in Arizona: Social Justice Implications for Education in the Borderlands [Angeles Maldonado, Beth Blue Swadener and Casey Khaleesi]  2. Countering Color-Blindness in Early Childhood Education: Elevating the Embodied Experiences, Perspectives, and Voices of Black Women Educators [Kia S. Rideaux and Michelle Salazar Pérez]  3. Children’s Voices and Gender Pedagogies for Equity In and Out of Early Childhood Classrooms [Kylie Smith]  4. Early Childhood Teacher Certification as a Site for the Re-Production of Racial and Cultural Injustice [Mariana Souto-Manning, Gail Buffalo, and Ayesha Rabadi-Raol]  Part II: Social Justice in the Classroom: Democratic and Anti-bias Practices  5. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Democratic Education in Early Childhood [Shirley A. Kessler]  6. "She doesn’t want to be a beautiful princess!": Language, Power, and Teaching for Democracy in the Early Childhood Classroom [Dana Frantz Bentley with Betty Chan]  7. Activism in their Own Right: Children’s Participation in Social Justice Movements [Lacey Peters]  8. The Cultural Politics of Childhood Education for Democracy in Reggio Emilia’s Servizi dell’Infanzia [Rebecca S. New]  Part III: Way Forward: Stories of hope and possibility  9. Out and About: Practicing Hope through Research [Jeanne Marie Iorio and Clifton S. Tanabe]  10. "What’s Love Got To do?": Enacting the Beloved Community Through Early Childhood Education [Mara Sapon-Shevin]  11. Social Justice in Early Education and Child Care: "What Is" and "What Ought to Be?" [Marianne N. Bloch]  12. Equality and Democratic Education Evaluation: A Way Forward for Teachers [Shirley A. Kessler]  Afterword [William Ayers]