{"title":"Black Girl Joy (Un)Interrupted: Recognizing and Nurturing Black Girls' Community-Building Capabilities in the Early Grades","authors":"Natacha Ndabahagamye Jones, Jennifer Keys Adair","doi":"10.1177/00420859241258174","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Black girls’ schooling experiences and capabilities are understudied. Their brilliance eludes neoliberal early childhood contexts characterized by control, standardization, hyper-individualism, and antiblackness. This article builds on Black Girlhood frameworks and Engaged Pedagogy to center 11 Black girls in three Texas PreK classrooms. In a secondary analysis of video-data from two large-scale video-cued ethnographies, we documented their capabilities, versatility, and consistency in building community with their classmates for interdisciplinary knowledge-making and enjoyment. Our findings reveal that context impacted how Black girls’ endeavors were received and which capabilities they could fully embody and share. We identify community, play, and joy as essential emancipatory avenues for learning.","PeriodicalId":23542,"journal":{"name":"Urban Education","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Urban Education","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00420859241258174","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Black girls’ schooling experiences and capabilities are understudied. Their brilliance eludes neoliberal early childhood contexts characterized by control, standardization, hyper-individualism, and antiblackness. This article builds on Black Girlhood frameworks and Engaged Pedagogy to center 11 Black girls in three Texas PreK classrooms. In a secondary analysis of video-data from two large-scale video-cued ethnographies, we documented their capabilities, versatility, and consistency in building community with their classmates for interdisciplinary knowledge-making and enjoyment. Our findings reveal that context impacted how Black girls’ endeavors were received and which capabilities they could fully embody and share. We identify community, play, and joy as essential emancipatory avenues for learning.
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Get hard-hitting, focused analyses of critical concerns facing inner-city schools in Urban Education. For almost 40 years, Urban Education has provided thought-provoking commentary on key issues from gender-balanced and racially diverse perspectives. Subjects include: •Mental health needs of urban students •Student motivation and teacher practice •School-to-work programs and community economic development •Restructuring in large urban schools •Health and social services