Early Childhood Symposium 2025 - Indigenizing Climate Justice: Strategies for Early Childhood Educators and Caregivers (CTLE 1.5)
(This session is for early childhood educators and caregivers)
Join Coahuiltecan educator Emi Aguilar (@IndigenizingArtsEd) in this interactive workshop to explore strategies rooted in kinship and reciprocity with Mother Earth. Participants will be invited to reflect, discuss, and collaborate on actionable methods to enact climate justice with young learners in classroom and home learning environments. This workshop will intentionally subvert European/colonial understandings of climate justice. Participants will leave with actionable strategies and recommended resources from an Indigenous lens, to begin or continue their climate justice work in early childhood education.
Learning Goals: By the end of this workshop:
- Educators will be able to identify climate justice frameworks rooted in colonial values of hierarchy, extraction, and capital
- Educators will practice integrating Indigenous values of kinship and reciprocity into their educational activities
- Educators will be able to define the Land Back movement and how it is the touchstone for a climate-just world
Booklist for this Session: Indigenizing Climate Justice
Join us for BPL's 7th Annual Early Childhood Symposium. This year we will explore Climate Justice through a series of virtual and in-person programs for young children, early childhood educators, and parents throughout May 2025. Events will be added to the calendar between January 2025 and March 2025. Sign up for our mailing list to stay updated! Follow this link in the calendar to find programs for children and adults: bklynlib.org/ecsymposium
The Early Childhood Symposium is funded by the City's First Readers Initiative of the NY City Council.
Staff Picks
- BKLYN Climate and Climate Justice Picture Books
