Seeing Beyond: Perspectives of Black Children in English ECEC

Abstract

hearts and we consider our own positionality in our research and teaching. Nikki, teaches undergraduates in Early Childhood Studies and postgraduate degree programmes in England. She acknowledges her White, working class, feminist background and use this to question the privilege she has enjoyed throughout her education and careers. Vini, is a British-Sikh professor and a woman of Indian heritage teaching undergraduate pre-service teachers, postgraduate students and supervising doctoral students in England. As an educator of colour, she has been persistently made aware of her subaltern status within the academy by students and academic colleagues. Vini's racialised experiences form the basis of her research and scholarship. We feel the inequity found in these global issues impacts locally in our wider communities. We need to debate and discuss what is happening globally and locally and we hope we can use this to challenge the students we teach, and also continue to examine our own positionality.