Child Care Justice - Transforming the System of Care for Young Children

"This book centers the historic and current oppression of Black people in the U.S. as foundational to the disregard for child care workers today and calls for a multiracial coalition of activists for racial justice, gender justice, and economic justice"--

About the author

Maurice Sykes is the executive director of the Early Childhood Leadership Institute in Washington, DC, and a senior associate at M. Russell & Associates. Kyra Ostendorf is an early childhood educator, publisher of Free Spirit Publishing, and former vice president of education at Kaplan Early Learning Company.

Summary

Join the authors of this book in starting a movement of hope and possibility for an antiracist child care and early childhood education system. This volume disrupts mental models regarding where the work of early care and education began and how the stigma of that beginning relegates present-day child care workers to a low-status field of practice.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara T. Bowman
• Assisted by: William Ayers (Editor), Kyra Ostendorf (Editor), Therese Quinn (Editor), Maurice Sykes (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2022
• EAN: 9780807767580
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-6758-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 225 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 294 g
• Series: Teaching for Social Justice; The Teaching for Social Justice Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Kindergarten and pre-school education