COMING SPRING 2027 FROM SAGE
Social Justice for the Early Years
A Guide for Educators
Dive into a practical and reflective guide that offers ways to develop fairer and more inclusive early years practice.
This book sets out what social justice looks like in the early years, exploring how inequality shapes children’s lives and supporting educators to respond with ethical judgement, care and political clarity.
Drawing on research, professional experience and guest contributions from experts, it supports you to:
Notice how children’s experiences are shaped by wider social conditions.
Nourish relationships, routines and environments that help children flourish.
Affirm children’s identities, family lives, cultures, languages and ways of being.
Challenge unfairness in the moment, and in the political and institutional conditions that shape early years practice.
This is for anyone working in the early years who is committed to creating more just spaces for children, families and communities.
Dr Shaddai Tembo is an early childhood consultant, trainer, researcher and lecturer.