Title: Planting the Seeds of Equity
Author(s): Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath
Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York
ISBN: 9780807763582 Pages: 128 Year: 2020


Through the voices of early childhood teachers, Agarwal-Rangnath emphasizes the complexity of the work of justice-oriented teachers as teaching social justice to young children is especially challenging and complex. Many social justice topics are seen as “sensitive” and require careful content selection and oral introduction. Therefore, justice-oriented early childhood teachers “must be especially resourceful” (p. 9) when selecting the books and other materials for their social justice curriculum.

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