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As Soon as They See You Coming, They Feel They Need to Protect Their Child: Black Male Kindergarten Teacher's Experience of Racism in Finland
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Aminkeng Atabong Alemanji – Educational Practice and Theory, 2024
Celebrated as the country with the best education system globally, Finland has also gained a reputation as one of the most racist countries in Europe for black people, especially people from Sub-Saharan Africa. The best education system in the world is built on the sweat and blood of racialised people whose experiences and roles they play as…
Descriptors: Blacks, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Males
Constructing "Behavior Problems": Race, Disability, and Everyday Discipline Practices in the Figured World of Kindergarten
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Boonstra, Kathryn E. – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2021
This article examines everyday disciplinary practices in three kindergarten classrooms and their role in identity construction. Taking a "figured worlds" perspective, I show how racialized and ableist discourses mediated processes of surveillance, escalation, and physical restraint, leading educators to disproportionately position Black…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Racial Bias, Gender Bias, African Americans
"They Are Just Five-Year-Old Boys": Examining the Role of Childhood Innocence in the Early Normalization of Sexual Violence
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Jessica Prioletta – McGill Journal of Education, 2024
The purpose of this article is to examine how the discourse of childhood innocence masks the ways in which sexual violence by boys against girls is perpetrated in kindergarten. Findings from a year-long ethnographic study conducted in two Canadian kindergarten classrooms show that narrow understandings of gender and sexuality in childhood obscure…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Violence, Males, Young Children
Proceedings of International Conference on Social and Education Sciences (IConSES) (Chicago, Illinois, October 21-24, 2021). Volume 1
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Akerson, Valarie, Ed.; Shelley, Mack, Ed. – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2021
"Proceedings of International Conference on Social and Education Sciences" includes full papers presented at the International Conference on Social and Education Sciences (IConSES), which took place on October 21-24, 2021, in Chicago, Illinois. The aim of the conference is to offer opportunities to share ideas, discuss theoretical and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Experiential Learning, Skill Development, Hispanic American Students