DEIJ Digital Scrapbook by Andrea Fernandez

Leadership for Social Justice

andrea1419 — 2023-12-05 04:04:36 UTC

This journal article discusses the beginnings of the work to address the need for DEIJ leadership in the educational setting and what the social justice preparation of educators looked like in the early 2000s. Implications for what DEIJ work looks like today are discussed in this journal article.

P21 Partnership for 21st Century Learning

andrea1419 — 2023-12-05 04:20:22 UTC

Battelle for Kids

This resource provides a framework of education that promotes DEIJ topics in their 21st Century interdisciplinary themes into their subject matter, under global awareness and civic literacy. This subject area is weaved into all aspects of the learning curriculum and environment. Subject matter includes 21st Century skills to understand and address global issues, working collaboratively with others who are diverse cultures, religions and lifestyles in a spirit of mutual respect and understanding of other nations and cultures (Battelle for Kids, n.d.).

The relationship between teachers’ views about the cultural values and critical pedagogy

andrea1419 — 2023-12-05 04:38:57 UTC

Critical Pedagogy is a theoretical and practical perspective in looking at the purpose of education and how educational pedagogy represents a struggle over knowledge and values, and is a deliberate way educators influence how and what knowledge is given to the learners and is a distinct values statement. This journal article questions the traditional educational mentality and its purpose (Yilmaz, et al., 2016).

Creating Classrooms for Social Justice| Edutopia

andrea1419 — 2023-12-05 04:48:44 UTC

This blog post discusses strategies for how learning facilitators can support their learners by providing ways to make a positive change in their world and the larger global community by building relationships, authentic conversations on real-world problems with multiple perspectives, and creating a safe classroom community for them and with them (Dell’Angelo, 2016).

The Culturally Responsive Teacher Educator

andrea1419 — 2023-12-05 05:03:33 UTC

This journal article highlights the challenges new BIPOC teachers face when entering the field and how it affects teachers who identify as activists for social justice and DEIJ work. The research data is then used to develop a conceptual framework of culturally responsive pedagogy which supports learning facilitators as change agents, who use empowering instructional practices, while learning about the learners and their cultural communities, while enacting sociopolitical consciousness, caring and having high expectations for the learners (Gist, 2014).

Advancing Equity on Early Childhood Education: A Position Statement of the National Association for the Education of Young Children

andrea1419 — 2023-12-05 05:19:15 UTC

Often in DEIJ work, teachers question their ethical responsibility to provide an equitable learning opportunity to all children, especially BIPOC children. The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) published a position statement to address this specifically, outlining the professional responsibility of the learning facilitators to advance equity. This document outlines the effective educational supports that learning facilitators must accept and support in their classrooms; i.e. embracing diversity and full inclusion from a strengths based perspective, uphold fairness and justice in their classroom and school communities, and actively work to eliminate structural inequities that perpetuate inequitable learning opportunities (NAEYC, 2019).

Learning for Justice

andrea1419 — 2023-12-05 05:29:58 UTC

This website provides many resources for learning facilitators of all age groups. There is a section on supporting learners to be activists and training coursework for the learning facilitator to complete. There are also podcasts to educate and inform learning facilitators on various DEIJ topics including the LGBTQ+ community, how to teach the hard history which includes slavery, and links to many other resources on DEIJ issues.

What is Social Justice Education?

andrea1419 — 2023-12-05 05:44:48 UTC

This article discusses what social justice education is and how using it is required for actively countering the injustices we are seeing in today's social and political environment. When defining what equity and justice is in regards to education, it means that everyone has all the resources the individual needs to live a fulfilling and secure life while recognizing the history, culture and experiences of everyone, especially the oppressed and marginalized (Bell, 2023). This article details specific steps and requirements to attaining this justice and thoroughly describes what it is.

How can we prepare teachers to work with culturally diverse students and their families? What skills should educators develop to do this successfully?

andrea1419 — 2023-12-05 06:29:00 UTC

One of the hurdles to DEIJ work is the teachers’ lack of relationship building with the learners and their families. In this blog post, professors share their strategies and insights on specific strategies to build the skills needed to be better able to work with and communicate effectively with the learners’ families. The blog also highlights the responsibility of learning facilitators to acknowledge and positively frame the knowledge and learned experiences the lerners come to school with. The strategies provided are practical and useful starting points for professional development.

Using Children's Literature to Advance Antiracist Early Childhood Teaching and Learning

andrea1419 — 2023-12-05 06:57:48 UTC

This journal article discusses the need for Early Childhood Education (ECE) learning facilitators to be antiracist and what that means. The research covers how ECE professionals need to understand how racism works and is imposed on the lives of the children they serve and how through the experiences they are provided in their ECE classroom, the effects can be countered (Spencer, 2022). The utilization of children’s literature with topics specific to antiracism, inclusion and social justice issues, can be used to support antiracist pedagogy and begin to improve the self esteem and efficacy of both the children and their learning facilitators.