Making Black Lives Matter in the Early Years: Centering Anti-Racist Approaches in Early Childhood Education and Care
Dr. Denisha Jones
The Black Lives Matter at School Guiding Principles: Fostering Black Cultural Citizenship Through Critical Civic Empathy
Denisha Jones and Sarah A. Mathews
Books
Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice
Edited by Denisha Jones and Jesse Hagopian
Black Lives Matter at School succinctly generalizes lessons from successful challenges to institutional racism that have been won through the Black Lives Matter at School movement. This book will inspire many more educators and activists to join the Black Lives Matter at School movement at a moment when this antiracist work in our schools could not be more urgent and critical to education justice.
Published by Haymarket Books in 2020.
Book Chapters
Black Lives Matter at School and the Ongoing Pursuit of Educational Justice for Black Lives
Denisha Jones
The Freedom to Play: Play as a Tool for Liberation
Denisha Jones
Activist Research in Social Studies Education: Renewed Scholarship for a Better World
Denisha Jones
Resisting Neoliberal Reforms in Early Childhood Education: Play Pedagogy as the Antidote to GERM
Denisha Jones
Articles
Kramer, B., Jones, D., & Broadbent, C. (2023). Teacher autonomy and agency during the COVID-19 pandemic. SSRNhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4450519
Mathews, S. A. & Jones, D. (6 April 2022). Black lives matter at school: Using the 13 guiding principles as critical race pedagogies for Black citizenship education. Journal of Social Studies Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssr.2022.03.001
Jones, D. (2020). The impact of COVID-19 on young children, families and teachers. Defending the Early Years, Inc. https://dey.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/The-Impact-of-COVID-19-on-Young-Children-Families-and-Teachers-A-DEY-Report-9-8-20-FINAL.pdf
Jones, D., Khalil, D. & Dixon, R. D. (2017) Teacher-advocates respond to ESSA: “Support the good parts—Resist the bad parts”. Peabody Journal of Education, 92(4), 445-465, DOI: 10.1080/0161956X.2017.1349479
Jones, D. (2017). From theorizing in the ivory tower to creating change with the people: Activist research as a framework for collaborative action. International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 8(2), 29-41.
Jones, D. (2017). When all else fails, we must protect childhood. Global Education Review, 4 (3), 14-16. https://ger.mercy.edu/index.php/ger/article/view/403
Jones, D. & Levin, D. (2016). Preschool suspensions do more harm than good. Education Week, 35(22), 26. https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-heres-why-preschool-suspensions-are-harmful/2016/02