From Goals to Actions: Enacting Accountability Toward Racial Justice in Educational Children’s Media Production

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable Session 3:05 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Critical Perspectives on Children's Media (Table 18)

Abstract

As political factions seek to limit representation in school curricula, public children’s media and out-of-school time programming are uniquely positioned to include expansive views of the future and work towards racial justice. In the following paper, we present several practices that one public media team has engaged in to hold themselves accountable to working toward racial justice and educational possibility as they produce, implement, and evaluate educational children’s media programming. We begin by presenting our curricular goals, then delve into four concrete practices that guide our daily work towards these goals. This work provides an exemplar for other content creators, administrators, educators, and researchers who are seeking holistic modes of accountability within their own work toward racial justice.

Authors

• Bryce Larkin Chessell Becker, Twin Cities PBS

• Diondra K. Brown, Twin Cities PBS

• Momo Hayakawa, Twin Cities PBS

• Alneida Madrigal, Twin Cities PBS