I See You, I Got You! Recognizing and Elevating Black Children’s Capabilities in Early Childhood Settings

• In Event: Black Futures and Childhoods: Imagining Liberatory Development and Education for Young Black Children

Abstract

Black children's knowledge-making capabilities are often overlooked and obscured by dominant education gap discourses that pinpoints failure. Using Black Emancipatory Action Research, I draw upon culturally and historically responsive literacy to show capabilities young Black children demonstrated in predominantly Black early childhood spaces governed by Black leaders who focus on empowerment.

Author

• Natacha Ndabahagamye Jones, University of North Texas