26.080-10 - Pivotal Uncertainties: Taking Stock and Taking Action in Critical Early Childhood Ethnographic Research

• In Event: 26.080 - Roundtable Session 8

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This session shares our insights as white Early Childhood teacher educators striving to engage in critical research that aims to challenge the status quo. We will also highlight pivotal uncertainties that we identified in our work, asserting that exploring the tensions, hypocrisies, and anxieties that emerged as we engaged with African-American, Latino, and white teachers and families is one way to inform critical methodologies and dialogue that have the potential to further research and instigate action in our field. This kind of session is important in a world still rife with inequities and biases that impact young children and families on a daily basis. A distinguished critical race scholar of color will be the discussant.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Perspectives on Early Childhood Education

Chair

• Dinah Volk, Cleveland State University

Papers

• Interrogating Discomfort and Privilege in an Ethnographic Study of Latino Families' Teaching Practices - Dinah Volk, Cleveland State University

• An Ethnographic Study of Three Young Children's Construction of Race in Home and Community Settings - Erin Till Miller, University of North Carolina - Charlotte

• This Is Not the Urban Cohort: Mediating and Resisting Racism in a Preservice Literacy Course - Kindel Allison Turner-Nash, University of South Carolina