Crystasany R. Turner, Ph.D. (she/her/ella), is an Associate Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. As a fourth-generation early educator and product of her grandmother’s home-based childcare program, her research centers the perspectives and cultural knowledge of Black women educators in the care and education of Children of Color. Her scholarship examining systemic inequities and spirit-centered pedagogies in early childhood education, has been published in Race Ethnicity and Education, the Journal of African American Women and Girls in Education, and the Journal of Teacher Education, among others.
Dr. Crystasany R. Turner
Articles by Dr. Crystasany R. Turner
As we commemorate Juneteenth, the field of early childhood education has an opportunity to reflect on the enduring relationship between Black women’s caregiving labor and the American social economy.
Al conmemorar Juneteenth, el sector de la educación infantil temprana tiene la oportunidad de reflexionar sobre la relación perdurable entre la labor de cuidado realizada por mujeres negras y la economía social estadounidense.