European American teachers' race-consciousness influences whether their pedagogical and content choices are non-racist and color-evasive or social justice-oriented and anti-racist. This narrative inquiry qualitative research analyzed the race-consciousness of European American teachers who self-identify as social justice educators. As the…

Placing young learners at the center of the teaching attention and learning process is considered to be of high importance in the teachers' attempt to help them be motivated to participate in the learning activities (Holderness, 1991, p.19). Towards that goal, young learners' characteristics such as imagination, creativity, curiosity and love for…