Global Citizenship Education as a Means of Countering Negative Messages of Self-Worth Among African American Preschoolers

• In Event: 60.084 - Roundtable Session 20
  In Roundtable Session: 60.084-15 - Protagonists and Provocations in the Early Years

Abstract

Historically, African American children have endured legacies of formal and informal education which fail to teach appreciation of their own culture as well as inclusion in a larger global community. There remains a gap in the body of early childhood research on the value of global education for very young African American children. The topic of this study, then, is the enactment of a global citizenship curriculum as a form of emancipatory practice at a small private preschool serving African American families in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Through engagement with Critical Race Theory, Anti-colonial Theory and Liberatory theory, the benefits of such a curriculum are examined.

Author

• Robin Elizabeth Hancock, Teachers College, Columbia University