ERIC Number: EJ1241801
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Mar
Pages: 22
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ISSN: ISSN-0042-0972
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Right to the Classroom: Seeking Spatial Justice in Kindergarten
Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, v52 n1 p151-172 Mar 2020
This article uses Lefebvre's concept of right to the city to frame the practices of a Kindergarten teacher and her ability to create a more racially equitable classroom space. It explains how the teacher and researcher collaboratively engaged in racial spaces analysis and critical race theory to develop greater racial spatial awareness. The teacher was able to use this awareness to resist neoliberalism and the racialization space in her classroom. The article explains how framing classroom practice according to right to the city can help teachers and researchers work together towards spatial justice in schools, where the educational rights of students of color are not limited by reductive notions of property based in whiteness.
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Equal Education, Critical Theory, Race, Neoliberalism, Social Justice, Student Rights, Minority Group Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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