Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education / Division K - Section 08: Teachers’ Lives, Identities, and Journeys

Catherine M. Main, University of Illinois at Chicago

Deconstructing Settler Colonialism in Early Childhood: Nature-Based Preschool Teachers’ Nature-Connectedness Journey and Perceptions of Nature - Stacey Alfonso, University of Washington

Disrupting Eurocentric Norms: Centering BIPOC Voices in Early Childhood Teacher Education - Ayesha Rabadi-Raol, Sonoma State University; Victoria Vaswani, Sonoma State University; Celia Salazar, Sonoma State University; Lauren Cooper, Sonoma State University

Early Childhood Education Teacher Stress: Obscured Truths and Tensions of Race - Cynthia Arraya Wiltshire, University of Texas - El Paso

Voices of Home-Based Providers: Perspectives From the Early Childhood Field - Bweikia T. Steen, George Mason University; Corey Shdaimah, University of Maryland; Elizabeth Palley, Adelphi University; Stephanie C. Calabrese, George Mason University

How Do Chinese Language Teachers Manage Young Learners’ Classrooms in the United States? Cognition and Behaviors - Ziyi Geng, Wake Forest University; Yesul Han, University of Virginia

Gail R. Buffalo, City College of New York - CUNY