Deploying Black Joy: Learning to Teach Towards Abolition Through Picture Books

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Author(s): Lisa Brown Buchanan (Elon University, USA), Cara Faulkner Ward (University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA)and Amy Senta (University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 18
Source title: Handbook of Research on Teaching Diverse Youth Literature to Pre-Service Professionals
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Danielle E. Hartsfield (University of North Georgia, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7375-4.ch018

Keywords: Education / Information Science Reference / K-12 Education / Teacher Education

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This chapter describes a theory into practice approach for using children's literature to explore and affirm Black joy, Blackness, and Black identity in the elementary classroom. The work of Dr. Bettina Love on abolitionist teaching provides the theoretical grounding for this chapter. The authors describe a synthesis of representation in children's literature and framework for abolitionist teaching, a description of three lessons focused on teaching Black joy, and a call for expanding this work in teacher education.

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