Children’s Pedagogies of Care: Listening, Planting, Sensing, Dignifying, Playing, and Kincrafting

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Teaching Black and Latine youth requires “for-real love” enacted through a “politicized ethics of care (Lane, 2018) that centers the safety, relationships, and health of Youth of Color. This panel delves into the concept of care in the context of educational justice, focusing on marginalized children’s experiences. The discussions include: children shaping kinship webs and challenging societal norms, attentive listening to children’s experiences and play to resist oppressive systems, Black adolescent mothers’ education as a core reproductive and educational justice issue, and a critical examination of Black feminist ethics of care in an urban farming project. The panel encourages participant engagement through the use of audio clips, visuals and interactive discussion to engage in conversations around pedagogies of care.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 6: De/Colonization and Transformative Curriculum Studies

Chair

• Wendy L. Luttrell, Graduate Center - CUNY

Papers

• Children’s Radical Kincrafting: Pedagogies of Care Across Home and School - Lauren J. Silver, Rutgers University - Camden

• Playing With Childhood: How Attention to Children “Playing School” Supports Teachers’ Pedagogies of Refusal - Kushya Sugarman, Mount Holyoke College

• Maintaining Their Dignity: The Contemporary State of Schooling for Adolescent Black Mothers and Their Children - Cece Fleury-Feldberg, Graduate Center - CUNY

• How to Plant Food: Black Feminist Care in the Anthropocene - Elaysel German, Rutgers University - Camden