ERIC Number: EJ1447040
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-1521-0960
EISSN: EISSN-1532-7892
Critically Conscious Early and Elementary Educators: Towards Abolitionist Education in Teacher Preparation
Multicultural Perspectives, v26 n3 p203-215 2024
How do teacher preparation programs re-culture themselves so that we can supply educational settings with teachers who work toward liberation from racism and other systems of oppression? Abolitionist education is one strategic framework that can be utilized to support this systemic re-culturing. I share my experiences in re-designing and facilitating a diversity course in an early childhood education (ECE) teacher preparation program toward abolitionist education through culturally and historically responsive learning, social justice teaching frameworks, Chicana/Latina feminist philosophy, and abolitionist pedagogy. The course explored four units: Identity, Justice and Anti-Bias, Intergenerational Genius, and Freedom Dreaming and Abolition. In-class and at-home projects included positionality statements, analyzing characteristics of white supremacy culture operating in ECE, studying abolitionist movement organizers, and transforming mandated curriculum based on social justice for young children. In this article, I share the context of the course redesign, my facilitation, and reflexive ideas for moving toward abolitionist education as a field of teacher preparation.
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Activism, Social Justice, Teacher Education, Racism, Power Structure, Classroom Environment, Diversity, Teacher Educators, Curriculum Design, Culturally Relevant Education, Philosophy, Self Concept, Justice, Bias, Course Content, Student Projects, Conflict, Cultural Influences
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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