Unpacking “Home”: Confronting Racism and Other Oppressions in Early Childhood Contexts

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This interactive symposium problematizes pervasive common sense assumptions about “home” as they relate to early childhood care and education (ECCE) and confronts implicit racism, classism and other forms of oppression in the field. Authors from four national contexts reflect on ways that notions of home are constructed by dominant cultural assumptions and how education based on those assumptions is experienced by minoritized cultures, immigrant families in the borderlands, children in poverty. We seek to articulate early childhood practices that better reflect diverse constructions of home and what home means across contexts and families within an anti-racist framework.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Perspectives on Early Childhood Education

Chair

• Mara Sapon-Shevin, Syracuse University

Papers

• Whose Home? Problematizing the Nature of "Homelike" in Early Childhood Education - Mara Sapon-Shevin, Syracuse University

• Transborder and Imaginary Homes: The Borderlands, Belonging, and the Stories We Tell - Beth Blue Swadener, Arizona State University; Angeles Judith Maldonado, The Institute for Border Crit Theory / Ybarra Maldonado Law Group

• Social Justice Theorizing of Architectures of Home - Marek Tesar, University of Melbourne

• Home or Homelessness: A Diffractive Re-Articulation of Teacher Otherness - Sonja Arndt, University of Melbourne