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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)

    9780807769140

    Paperback / softback, published 22 March 2024

    208 pages
    22.9 x 15.6 x 1 cm, 0.133 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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