We Are the Change We Seek – Advancing Racial Justice in Early Care and Education by Iruka, Iheoma U.; Durden, Tonia R.; Escayg, Kerry–ann;

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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.

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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” activities that encourages 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.

Tartalomjegyzék:

• 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