{"title":"I talk normal: A comparative case study of raciolinguistic socialization in preschool","authors":"Erin Quast","doi":"10.1177/14687984231184133","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This study analyzes how raciolinguistic ideologies shape children’s identity construction within two American preschool classrooms. Specifically, I attend to the ways three-, four-, and five- year-old Dominant American English-speaking children adopted white listening subject positions and shaped peer interactions in the classroom. Ethnographic data for this comparative case study included children and teacher interviews, classroom observations, and classroom artifact collection. Within- and cross-case analyses revealed three salient raciolinguistic socialization processes: marking of language, racialization of differences, and enacted raciolinguistic hierarchies. Children’s participation within these raciolinguistic processes reflected the local particulars of the classroom, including curriculum, educators’ pedagogies, and classroom demographics. Implication for research and practices that attend to young children's raciolinguistic socialization are discussed","PeriodicalId":47033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early Childhood Literacy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Early Childhood Literacy","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14687984231184133","RegionNum":4,"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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This study analyzes how raciolinguistic ideologies shape children’s identity construction within two American preschool classrooms. Specifically, I attend to the ways three-, four-, and five- year-old Dominant American English-speaking children adopted white listening subject positions and shaped peer interactions in the classroom. Ethnographic data for this comparative case study included children and teacher interviews, classroom observations, and classroom artifact collection. Within- and cross-case analyses revealed three salient raciolinguistic socialization processes: marking of language, racialization of differences, and enacted raciolinguistic hierarchies. Children’s participation within these raciolinguistic processes reflected the local particulars of the classroom, including curriculum, educators’ pedagogies, and classroom demographics. Implication for research and practices that attend to young children's raciolinguistic socialization are discussed
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Journal of Early Childhood Literacy is a fully peer-reviewed international journal. Since its foundation in 2001 JECL has rapidly become a distinctive, leading voice in research in early childhood literacy, with a multinational range of contributors and readership. The main emphasis in the journal is on papers researching issues related to the nature, function and use of literacy in early childhood. This includes the history, development, use, learning and teaching of literacy, as well as policy and strategy. Research papers may address theoretical, methodological, strategic or applied aspects of early childhood literacy and could be reviews of research issues. JECL is both a forum for debate about the topic of early childhood literacy and a resource for those working in the field. Literacy is broadly defined; JECL focuses on the 0-8 age range. Our prime interest in empirical work is those studies that are situated in authentic or naturalistic settings; this differentiates the journal from others in the area. JECL, therefore, tends to favour qualitative work but is also open to research employing quantitative methods. The journal is multi-disciplinary. We welcome submissions from diverse disciplinary backgrounds including: education, cultural psychology, literacy studies, sociology, anthropology, historical and cultural studies, applied linguistics and semiotics.