Agency and Power in Young Children’s Lives Five Ways to Advocate for Social Justice as an Early Childhood Educator

[...]for those administrators, policymakers, and teachers who want to center social justice, we offer five ways to shift thinking and practice in our work with young children. The teachers have a strong and meaningful relationship with his mother, and they know that his family has lost their home. B...

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Published inYC young children Vol. 76; no. 2; pp. 40 - 48
Main Authors Adair, Jennifer Keys, Sachdeva, Shubhi
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) 01.07.2021
National Association for the Education of Young Children
Subjects
Child Development
Children & youth
Classrooms
COVID-19
Curricula
Early childhood education
Families & family life
Injustice
Inquiry method
Learning
Nurturing Equity Leaders: Where We Are and Where We Need to Be
Oppression
Preschool education
Professional development
Racism
School superintendents
Social justice
Standardized Tests
Teachers
Teaching
White supremacy
Young Children
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Summary:[...]for those administrators, policymakers, and teachers who want to center social justice, we offer five ways to shift thinking and practice in our work with young children. The teachers have a strong and meaningful relationship with his mother, and they know that his family has lost their home. Because they are sharing a motel room with other relatives, they do not have a regular schedule for eating and sleeping. Superintendent Decision-Making to Address Racial Justice in Early Childhood Education Social Justice The San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) has been improving standardized test scores and state ratings quickly over the past five years. (For further reading, see "Never Too Young to Support a Cause: Supporting Positive Identity Development Through Social Justice Curriculum in Preschool," by Veronica Benavides, Roxanne Ledda, and Maimuna Mohammed in the December 2020 issue of Young Children.) Social justice acknowledges the political nature of teaching and learning and supports children (along with their teachers, administrators, and policymakers) in understanding their own realities as well as the realities of others in the context of justice so they can recognize discrimination and other injustices and have the tools to act against them.
ISSN:1538-6619
2770-856X
1941-2002