Resisting Curriculum Erasure: A Child Advocacy Project for Asian American Bilingual Picture Books

• In Event: Illuminating Young Children's Critical Literacy Practices for Reparative Justice

Abstract

This study aims to uplift Asian American voices in anti-racist education in early childhood settings. It recognizes how racism takes place in the form of curriculum erasure, starting from the early grades (Yoon & Templeton, 2022). Responding to the urgent need for counterstories of Asian American children, this child participatory action research project follows a group of 20 bilingual children from a Vietnamese-English dual language classroom. It aims to document how these children, under the guidance and support of their teachers, initiated and took action in their advocacy project to resist curriculum erasure and advocate for the inclusion of Asian American bilingual picture books in their school community.

Author

• Alisha Nguyen, Lesley University