ERIC Number: EJ1428265
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Publication Date: 2024-Jun
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"We Are That Resilience": Building Cultural Capital through Family Child Care
Juliet Bromer; Crystasany Turner; Samantha Melvin; Aisha Ray
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, v25 n2 p202-222 2024
Family child care professionals are a critical sector of the early care and education workforce. Utilizing critical race theory and Yosso's Community Cultural Wealth model, the current study seeks to examine the strengths and assets that family child care professionals of color bring to their early care and education work and to the children and families in their programs. The authors identified evidence of four types of cultural capital (aspirational, familial, navigational, and resistant) in the focus group narratives of family child care professionals of color across four regions in the USA. Their narratives describe an orientation to caring for children and families that counters exclusionary and biased systems. The family child care professionals of color envision themselves as educators and supporters of community advancement in opposition to racialized stereotypes of home-based child care work as babysitting (aspirational capital); they leverage the home as a place for racial healing and sustain intergenerational connections with families through practices of othermothering and an ethic of love (familial capital). The family child care professionals of color describe the ways they enact navigational and resistant capital in their perseverance and participation in licensing and quality systems, despite inequities. The family child care professionals' counternarratives of family child care work suggest their essential role in societal functioning and well-being. The study's findings hold implications for (re)defining early care and education quality and (re)designing systems that celebrate and recognize the strengths, resilience, and capacity of family child care professionals of color to support equitable futures for children, families, and communities.
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Child Care, Child Caregivers, Family Environment, Minority Groups, Professional Identity, Preschool Teachers, Community Development, Caregiver Attitudes, Stereotypes, Family Relationship, Intimacy, Certification, Caregiver Role, Preschool Children, Resilience (Psychology), Futures (of Society), Educational Quality, Hispanic Americans, Critical Race Theory
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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