All of This Is Yours: Global Citizenship Education as Emancipatory Practice for African American Preschoolers

• In Event: Roundtable Session 47
  In Roundtable Session: Broadening Approaches to Educating Black Youth

Abstract

By the time preschool-aged African American children enter preschool, they have already been exposed to many indicators which inform them of their “place” in the communities they frequent. Almost no research has been done on the value of global education for African American children. As a result, there are few early childhood curricula that have been documented in the classroom to provide evidence of the benefits of providing this type of curriculum to African American children. This research is a study of the enactment of a global citizenship curriculum in a small, community preschool serving a predominantly African American population in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

Author

• Robin Elizabeth Hancock, Teachers College, Columbia University