Equity As Praxis in Early Childhood Education and Care

Zuhra Abawi is an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education at Niagara University and an Elementary Teacher with the Peel District School Board and has worked across all sectors of the education system from the early years, K–12, and higher education. Ardavan Eizadirad is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University and an instructor in the School of Early Childhood Studies at Ryerson University and in the Master of Teaching and Bachelor of Education programs at OISE, University of Toronto.Rachel Berman is the Graduate Program Director and an Associate Professor at the School of Early Childhood Studies at Ryerson University and an adjunct member to the graduate program in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies at York University.

• Foreword - Judith K. BernhardIntroduction: Healing and Hoping in Community and Love as a Tool for Advancing Equity as Praxis - Zuhra Abawi, Ardavan Eizadirad, and Rachel BermanChapter 1: State of Emergency: Mapping Inequities in Early Childhood Education and Care in Canada - Ardavan Eizadirad and Zuhra AbawiChapter 2: Low-Income Racialized Children and Access to Quality ECEC in Ontario - Alana ButlerChapter 3: Troubling Dominant Discourses and Stories that Shape Our Understanding of the Child Refugee - Nidhi MenonChapter 4: Equity Enacted: Possibilities for Difference in ECEC through a Critical Ethics of Care Approach - Alana Powell, Lisa Johnston, and Rachel LangfordChapter 5: Planning Time for Equity: A (Re)Examination of a Study of ECEs' Perspectives on Planning Time in Southern Ontario - Lisa JohnstonChapter 6: Using Femme Theory to Foster a Feminine-Inclusive Early Childhood Education and Care Practice - Adam Davies and Rhea Ashley HoskinChapter 7: Making Space for Indigenous Knowledge in an Urban Child-Care Centre - Maya-Rose SimonChapter 8: Failure and Loss as a Methodological, Relational, and Ethical Necessity in Teaching and Learning in the Early Years - Maria KarmirisChapter 9: Reflect, Enact, and Transform: A Preliminary Anti-Racism Guide for Early Childhood Educators - Kerry-Ann EscaygConclusion: Some Concluding Thoughts on Equity as Praxis - Rachel BermanContributor Biographies