Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Early Care and Education Workforce

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In response to the theme of AERA 2024, “Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action,” we propose a Symposium session that focuses on racial/ethnic disparities in the early care education workforce. Presenters in this session will show whether/how racial disparities are reflected in different domains of the ECE sector. We will then engage presenters in a discussion to talk through common patterns and differences across the papers and discuss next steps for the studies and ways to contribute to dismantling racial inequities within the ECE workforce.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Early Education and Child Development

Chair

• Yoonjeon Kim, University of California - Berkeley

Papers

• Beyond Racial/Ethnic Wage Gaps: Disparities in the Early Care and Education Workforce - Yoonjeon Kim, University of California - Berkeley; Lea J.E. Austin, University of California - Berkeley

• Racial Differences in Early Childhood Teachers’ Working Conditions and Well-Being - Kyong-Ah Kwon, University of Oklahoma; Timothy G. Ford, University of Oklahoma; Seulki Rachel Jang, University of Oklahoma

• Race and the Well-Being of Early Educators - Wanzi Muruvi, University of California - Berkeley; Anna Powell, University of California - Berkeley; Yoonjeon Kim, University of California - Berkeley