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Indigenous Water Pedagogies: Cultivating Relations Through the Reading of Water
Get PDFIn this paper we put forth a model of Indigenous pedagogies that cultivate more ethical relations and complex thinking about water. The first dimension of Indigenous water pedagogies is relations with water which involves ethical decision-making involving water and other more-than-human beings that are in relation to water. The second dimension is reading water which involves learning to make sense of complex phenomena to build theories and explanations about water is it exists in the environment. Together, these two dimensions support complex thinking and decision-making about water in a way that is guided with reciprocal relations with water. We discuss three examples of Indigenous water pedagogies as they are enacted in the context of an Indigenous STEAM program that spans across two sites and involves interactions with the Chicago River, Puget Sound, and rain
Elaine M. Alexander: 2023 Cook Prize Gold Medal Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Elaine M. Alexander gives an acceptance speech for Anglerfish: The Seadevil of the Deep, illustrated by Fiona Fogg (Candlewick)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cook/1007/thumbnail.jp
Sound, senses, semantics: A music and movement curriculum for children with ASD in a therapeutic nursery school setting
Get PDFThis Integrative Master’s Project (IMP) uses a literature review of strength-based, child-centric, and behavioral to devise a 12-unit music and movement curriculum for a therapeutic nursery school setting, with children diagnosed with ASD or emotional regulation disabilities. Within those specifics, this curriculum also aims to center children’s culture and lived experience, with the goals of anti-bias education and the developmental-interaction approach in mind
Traces of Worms
Get PDFThe setting was a day spent planting trees outside the school grounds. As Zoey and her classmates planted the trees, they also recorded the activity in their notebooks. The children noticed the worms that were wriggling in the ground. Zoey recorded an activity in which leaves and then worms were lifted from the earth, and the worms then explored the page where they were put. Afterward, the worms were lifted off the page and put back on the ground. The traces of the worms were left on the page. We were left with traces of worms
Marilyn Nelson Claudia Lewis Award 2023 Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Marilyn Nelson wins the Claudia Lewis Award 2023 for Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor’s Life from Bank Street College Children\u27s Book Committee.
The Claudia Lewis Award
The Claudia Lewis Award, given for the first time in 1998, honors the best poetry book of the year. The award commemorates the late Claudia Lewis, distinguished children’s book expert and longtime member of the Bank Street College faculty and Children’s Book Committee. She conveyed her love and understanding of poetry with humor and grace.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cbc_awards/1011/thumbnail.jp
“It Feels Fake”: Decolonizing Curriculum and Pedagogy in Predominantly White Institutions
Get PDFThis article describes the processes, tensions, questions, conflicts, and celebrations the three authors experienced while creating and implementing decolonizing and/or Indigenous curriculum and pedagogy for predominantly white university classrooms. The theoretical framework engages Indigenous epistemologies and decolonizing pedagogy to disrupt Western schooling rooted in the ways Indigenous scholars see knowledge as fundamentally relational and community as the primary setting for Indigenous and decolonizing education. Western schooling continues to support the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their/our lands with a “civilizing agenda” that promotes individualization. We seek to re-connect relationships with the land and Indigenous community in our various disciplines. The authors share their reflections through storywork and describe similarities, differences, and insights based on their positionalities
#30 Transforming Early Years Policy in the US : A Call to Action
No full textPanel discussion with authors which included breakout discussions with participants to engage in a collaborative exploration of the possible - both in the short and longer-term. Hosted by Mark Nagasawa, co-editor and director of the Straus Center for Young Children and Families, Bank Street College of Education.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/librarysalons/1029/thumbnail.jp
In the Park: A Treescapes Discussion with Rex
Get PDFIn this video, composed of still images and video footage, two-year-old Rex leads his mother on a playful exploration through a leafy area of Alexandra Park, located in the Stockport borough of Greater Manchester in England. The park has a wide range of amenities including a reservoir, wooded area, skate park, and play park, and offers a safe and calm but exciting space for visitors. Rex enjoys being among the trees. He imagines owls in the treetops and stops to admire the tree\u27s bark, describing it as bumpy. Rex enjoys splashing in puddles, playing peekaboo behind a tree, and running to find shelter from the rain under a small tree. In a conversation, Rex explains that he loves the park because he loves trees, and two big trees, in particular. His adventure moves to the wooded area, where he imagines characters from one of his favorite storybooks, The Gruffalo (by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Alex Scheffler, 1999). Rex is responsive throughout his exciting adventure, engaging with the trees and wildlife that live in the park
Treescapes
Get PDFWe’ve each been looking to the trees for a long time. One of us painting, the other writing, with, by the trees. In the middle of the city and its noise, finding the branches. Standing, inquiring, returning. Why the trees, how we belong to each other, is a question worth asking again and again. These paintings and poems are part of an ongoing conversation, of many layers, of many trees, of what we lose and find under their canopies, in blooms, in dirt & seasons. What walking among the trees has taught us is that every art is an invitation to the mutuality of life. Through paintings it means creating an opening of treescapes and orchards for people to become a part of & inhabit. & every exchange of poetry is a welcoming to community, listening, growth
Ruta Sepetys Josette Frank Award 2023 Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Ruta Sepetys wins the Josette Frank Award (for older readers) 2023 for I Must Betray You from Bank Street College Children\u27s Book Committee.
The Josette Frank Award
This award for fiction honors a book or books of outstanding literary merit in which children or young people deal in a positive and realistic way with difficulties in their world and grow emotionally and morally. The award has been given annually since 1943. Josette Frank, the editor of anthologies for children, served for many years as the Executive Director of the Child Study Association of America of which this committee was a part.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cbc_awards/1010/thumbnail.jp