"It's How You're Delivering These Messages": An Examination of Black Women Early Childhood Educators' Liberatory Practices Through Poetic Inquiry

被引:1
作者
Green, Meghan L. [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Erickson Inst Early Childhood Dev, Chicago, IL 60654 USA
[2] Illinois Governors Off Early Childhood Dev GOECD, Chicago, IL USA
关键词
CRITICAL RACE THEORY; TEACHERS; FEMINIST; EXPERIENCES; PEDAGOGY; CULTURE; PRAXIS;
D O I
10.1080/10665684.2023.2280857
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
Over the course of 18 months, I found myself on a journey that began with two research questions based on my wonderings and observations about the lives of the women I witnessed engaging with young Black children in ways that the academic literature had not expounded upon. In this article, I use poetic inquiry to elucidate the liberatory practices of five Black women early childhood educators in a southwestern state. Rooted in Black feminist thought and ars spirituality, I analyzed my co-researchers' narrative portraits to craft found poems that explored the connection between their embodiment of reciprocal authenticity and liberatory practices that further developed young Black children's critical consciousness. As a means of (re)claiming my responsibility as a scholar and teacher educator, I provide the reader with poetic offerings that speak to the intergenerational freedom dreams of these Black women educators.
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页码:545 / 559
页数:15
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