1st Edition
Understanding Early Years Inequality Policy, assessment and young children's identities
By Alice Bradbury
Copyright 2013
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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Understanding Early Years Inequality uses critical sociological perspectives to examine the impact of changing assessment policy on primary school classrooms, with a particular focus on issues of inequality. Drawing on accounts of life in early years classrooms, Alice Bradbury suggests that a specific model of the ‘good learner’ operates, and that this model works to exclude some groups of... Read more
1. Policy and inequality in primary education 2. Understanding learner identities in the early years classroom 3. Assessing learners in the first year of school 4. Assessing a ‘difficult intake’: race, religion, class and gender in Reception 5. ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ learners in the classroom 6. Playing with numbers: learner identities and assessment 7. Policy, equality and ‘learning’
Biography
Alice Bradbury is Lecturer at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.
