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    Pro-Blackness in Early Childhood Education
    Diversifying Curriculum and Pedagogy in K–3 Classrooms

    Gloria Swindler Boutte (Author), Jarvais J. Jackson (Author), Saudah N. Collins (Author), Janice R. Baines (Author), George Lee Johnson Jr. (Author), Anthony Broughton (Author)

    9780807769157

    Hardback, published 22 March 2024

    208 pages
    23.5 x 16.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.272 kg

    Use this inspirational resource to engage in Pro-Black teaching with young children as an antidote to endemic anti-Black racism in schools and society. Drawing from a critical case study of K-3 teachers who use Pro-Black teaching in their daily instruction, this important book puts forth positive perspectives regarding Blackness and Black people that are not evident in most educational settings. An easy-to-understand text provides evidence-based curriculum examples, pedagogies, and resources; demonstrates how teachers can achieve Pro-Black teaching while also addressing curricular standards and other demands on their time; and explains the benefit of Pro-Black teaching for all children. The authors draw from decades of practice and research by Black scholars (e.g., Asa Hilliard, Janice Hale, Amos Wilson) to position racial identities as a key part of Black children's development. They center African Diaspora literacy as a Pro-Black pedagogy to ensure that Black children are competent in their own culture as well as in global cultures. Pro-Blackness in Early Childhood Education celebrates the agency, resistance, everyday lives, and joy of Black people.

    Book Features:

    • Demonstrates how Pro-Blackness can be used to interrupt ethnocide practices that threaten Black children's culture and spirits.
    • Provides guidance for implementing and sustaining Pro-Black instruction, with accessible examples of curriculum and instruction.
    • Focuses on Pro-Blackness rather than anti-Blackness.
    • Includes examples of K–3 lessons from Drs. Diaspora curriculum that have been used in majority Black, majority White, and racially mixed classrooms.

    • Contents
    • Foreword 
      Joyce E. King  
      vii
    • Prelude—
      "Pro-Black . . . Yes!" A Poem by Adrian Green        
      xiii
    • Introduction  
      1
      Gloria Swindler Boutte, Jarvais J. Jackson, Saudah N. Collins, Janice R. Baines, George Lee Johnson, and Anthony Broughton
    • 1.  
      Pro-Blackness in Early Childhood Education        
      5
      Gloria Swindler Boutte
    • 2.  
      Amplifying Pro-Black Perspectives in Child Development: The Children Will Be Well        
      25
      Anthony Broughton and Gloria Swindler Boutte
    • 3.  
      Drs. Diaspora Curriculum: Cultural Continuity From the Nile to the Niger to Rivers in the United States        
      51
      Gloria Swindler Boutte and George Lee Johnson
    • 4.  
      I'
      ll Take You There: Envisioning and Sustaining African Diasporic Educational Spaces        
      71
      Jarvais J. Jackson
    • 5.  
      Africanizing the Early Childhood Curriculum: Exploring Pro-Blackness Through African Diaspora Literacy        
      89
      Saudah N. Collins
    • 6.  
      Pro-Blackness as a Loving Antidote in Early Childhood Classrooms  
      109
      Janice R. Baines
    • 7.  
      African American Language (AAL): It'
      s       the Language for Me  
      125
      Gloria Swindler Boutte
    • 8.  
      What'
      s Up, Fam (Family)?  
      133
      Saudah N. Collins and Jarvais J. Jackson
    • 9.  
      Reimagining Classroom "Management" Using Pro-Black and Restorative Approaches  
      149
      Jarvais J. Jackson
    • Endnotes  
      173
    • References  
      175
    • Index  
      185
    • About the Authors  
      193
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