scholarly journals Pursuing Justice-Driven Inclusive Education Research: Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) in Early Childhood

2021 ◽  
pp. 027112142199083
Author(s):  
Hailey R. Love ◽  
Margaret R. Beneke
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Children Of Color ◽  
Educational Processes

Multiple scholars have argued that early childhood inclusive education research and practice has often retained racialized, ableist notions of normal development, which can undermine efforts to advance justice and contribute to biased educational processes and practices. Racism and ableism intersect through the positioning of young children of Color as “at risk,” the use of normalizing practices to “fix” disability, and the exclusion of multiply marginalized young children from educational spaces and opportunities. Justice-driven inclusive education research is necessary to challenge such assumptions and reduce exclusionary practices. Disability Critical Race Theory extends inclusive education research by facilitating examinations of the ways racism and ableism interdependently uphold notions of normalcy and centering the perspectives of multiply marginalized children and families. We discuss constructions of normalcy in early childhood, define justice-driven inclusive education research and its potential contributions, and discuss DisCrit’s affordances for justice-driven inclusive education research with and for multiply marginalized young children and families.

scholarly journals A Content Analysis Of The Ontario Ministry Of Education's Memorandum PPM No.119: Developing And Implementing Equity And Inclusive Education Policies In Ontario Schools

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Royer
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Black Students ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Parent Engagement ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Education Policies

Ontario schools have been criticized for maintaining inequitable practices and environments. To combat this inequity, the Ontario Ministry of Education created the PPM No.119: Developing and Implementing Equity and Inclusive Education Policies in Ontario Schools (Ontario Ministry of Education, 2009). In this study, I undertake a content analysis of the policy focusing on the words ‘race’ and ‘parents’ in order to explore whether or not racialized children and families, specifically the Black community, may benefit from this policy. Critical Race Theory and a parent engagement framework guided my analysis. The results indicated that this policy may actually exclude students and families, particularly Black students and families, as opposed to creating more equitable and inclusive opportunities. Recommendations are made for promoting anti-racist practices by early childhood educators and teachers and working toward ensuring the accountability of administrators.

scholarly journals Counteracting Dysconscious Racism and Ableism Through Fieldwork: Applying DisCrit Classroom Ecology in Early Childhood Personnel Preparation

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Christine L. Hancock ◽  
Chelsea W. Morgan ◽  
James Holly
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Personnel Preparation ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Children Of Color ◽  
Preparation Programs ◽  
Classroom Ecology

Early childhood personnel preparation programs must prepare future early educators who can counteract racism and ableism to provide all children with an equitable and just education. We applied Dis/ability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) Classroom Ecology to early childhood and specifically to preschool settings. We argue that early childhood personnel preparation programs can utilize this framework to prepare preservice early educators to facilitate more equitable experiences for Children of Color with disabilities and their families. We discuss the importance of preparing future early educators to counteract racism and ableism through their fieldwork experiences. We also provide a brief overview of DisCrit in relation to early childhood personnel preparation and present DisCrit Classroom Ecology to apply the framework components to preschool fieldwork.

scholarly journals A Content Analysis Of The Ontario Ministry Of Education's Memorandum PPM No.119: Developing And Implementing Equity And Inclusive Education Policies In Ontario Schools

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Royer
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Black Students ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Parent Engagement ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Education Policies

Ontario schools have been criticized for maintaining inequitable practices and environments. To combat this inequity, the Ontario Ministry of Education created the PPM No.119: Developing and Implementing Equity and Inclusive Education Policies in Ontario Schools (Ontario Ministry of Education, 2009). In this study, I undertake a content analysis of the policy focusing on the words ‘race’ and ‘parents’ in order to explore whether or not racialized children and families, specifically the Black community, may benefit from this policy. Critical Race Theory and a parent engagement framework guided my analysis. The results indicated that this policy may actually exclude students and families, particularly Black students and families, as opposed to creating more equitable and inclusive opportunities. Recommendations are made for promoting anti-racist practices by early childhood educators and teachers and working toward ensuring the accountability of administrators.

(Re)defining “good teaching”: Teacher performance assessments and critical race theory in early childhood teacher education

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 442-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Michael Luna
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Early Childhood Teacher ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Admissions Policy ◽  
Linguistically Diverse Students

Using three tenents of Critical Race Theory, this study examines the influence of edTPAs on diverse early childhood pre-service teachers in a graduate program. Findings suggest that (1) Color-blind admissions policy and practice were at odds with edTPA’s perceived academic language demands; (2) A tension emerged between financial demands of edTPA and the constraints of immigrant and linguistically diverse students; and (3) edTPA rubrics and requirements required students of color to write and rewrite their teaching selves to match the external standard.

(Re)Centering Quality in Early Childhood Education: Toward Intersectional Justice for Minoritized Children

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Souto-Manning ◽  
Ayesha Rabadi-Raol
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
American English ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Definition Of

In this chapter, we offer a critical intersectional analysis of quality in early childhood education with the aim of moving away from a singular understanding of “best practice,” thereby interrupting the inequities such a concept fosters. While acknowledging how injustices are intersectionally constructed, we specifically identified critical race theory as a counterstory to White supremacy, culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogies as counterstories to monocultural teaching practices grounded in deficit and inferiority paradigms, and translanguaging as a counterstory to the (over)privileging of dominant American English monolingualism. While each of these counterstories forefronts one particular dimension of oppression, together they account for multiple, intersecting systems of oppressions; combined, they expand the cartography of early childhood education and serve to (re)center the definition of quality on the lives, experiences, voices, and values of multiply minoritized young children, families, and communities. Rejecting oppressive and reductionist notions of quality, through the use of re-mediation, this article offers design principles for intersectionally just early childhood education with the potential to transform the architecture of quality.

scholarly journals A discourse analysis of the College of Early Childhood educators communications: how do they shape the professional identity of Ontario's registered early childhood educators?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chanequa Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Early Childhood Educators ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory

The College of Early Childhood Educators (CECE) regulates registered early childhood educators (RECEs) in Ontario, Canada. The CECE distributes numerous communications to RECEs, whereby the text (both implicitly and explicitly) works to situate ECEs within a particular professional identity. This research study applies discourse analysis to code and categorize text from 66 communications disseminated by the CECE to RECEs. I identify five key discourses as well as several discursive strategies used to reinforce the discourses that contribute to the construction of a professional identity for Ontario RECEs. This study also employs two theoretical frameworks, feminist theory and critical race theory (CRT), to examine “what is not being said” by the CECE about the realities of RECE working conditions. I offer a counter-discourse to provide a narrative account of how particular RECE working conditions and real life professional experiences collide with the five discourses, and create a professional crisis in a current patchwork system. Keywords: professional identity, discourses, constructionism, feminist theory, critical race theory (CRT)

scholarly journals “Help Them Back Home”: Italian Fantasies of (Neoliberal) Inclusion from Buona Scuola to Salvini’s Government

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-141
Author(s):  
Valentina Migliarini
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Racial Disparities ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Italian Context

This paper explores how inclusive education in the Italian context has shifted from the Marxist model based on the solidarity of Integrazione Scolastica (see D’Alessio, 2011) to a neoliberal approach which targets Black migrant and forced-migrant children. The introduction of Renzi’s policy reform, Buona Scuola, marked this shift towards neoliberal inclusion, and the current far-right government, led by Salvini, adds a populist character to it, evident in his mantra of “helping them back home”. Drawing from Butler’s (1997) notions of subjectivation and referring to Tomlinson’s (1982) concept of benevolent humanitarianism, the paper analyzes how Italian educators conceptualize the inclusion of migrants and refugees through neoliberal fantasies.  However, the space of neoliberal inclusion is ableist, racist, and exclusionary. Ultimately, the paper advances the intersectional approach of Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) to (re)frame educational and social inclusion in Italy and to refute a neoliberal model that perpetuates racial disparities (Annamma, Connor, Ferri, 2013; 2016).

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