Looking Back to Look Forward

What can we - as educators, parents, researchers, community members - learn from independent Black institutions about expansive ways to support the well-being of children and their families? And why and how ought we look back to look forward, regarding caregiving that is culturally relevant and sustaining? Here, we explore independent Black institutions as educational contexts in and through which Identity, Purpose, and Direction were cultivated with intention to support robust learning opportunities. We begin to unpack these rich, historic sites of caregiving with attention to data and messaging around how to nurture children as affirmed and agentive learners, and with respect to the role and value of nested communities that include biological family and invested educators

Data science · Engineering ethics · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Family Support in Illness · History · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving