Confronting the Raciolinguistic Injustices Recycled in Early Childhood Spaces: Advocating With a Feminist-Abolitionist Approach

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel presents women scholars with various intersectionalities, who continue the traditions of feminist and abolitionist theories with qualitative methodologies in an international research study (11 researchers—Five State Study Trip in Italy in 2019). The aim is to affirm the rights of emergent bilingual and multilingual children (0-6 years old) and their families. Panelists conducted a research study to investigate how educators from the municipal schools of Reggio Emilia, Italy and from the US applied the Reggio philosophy when working with children who speak language/s other than the school language at home. Findings from these four papers empowered us to examine early learning contexts using a critical raciolinguistic lens to affirm the cultural and linguistic rights of these learners.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Early Education and Child Development

Chair

• Juana Maria Reyes, Lewis University

Papers

• Framing the Radical Pursuit of Critical Racial and Cultural Linguistics Through Pedagogical Documentation - Juana Maria Reyes, Lewis University

• Disrupting the Educational Malpractice and Advocating for Racial Justices for Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual Learners - Yin Lam Lee-Johnson, Webster University

• Women in Resistance: The Role of the Atelierista/Atelier in Anti-Facist Art Pedagogy - Geralyn Schroeder Yu, University of New Mexico

• Unraveling the Status Quo Realities by Engaging the Participation of Super-Diverse Children and Families - Brenda S. Fyfe, Webster University