1st Edition
Challenging the School Readiness Agenda in Early Childhood Education
By Miriam B. Tager
Copyright 2017
136 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
136 Pages
by
Routledge
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Challenging the normative paradigm that school readiness is a positive and necessary objective for all young children, this book asserts that the concept is a deficit-based practice that fosters the continuation of discriminatory classifications. Tager draws on findings of a qualitative study to reveal how the neoliberal agenda of school reform based on high-stakes testing sorts and labels... Read more
One – Introducing the Non-school ready child
Two – The Historical Context of the Non-school Ready Child
Three – The Ecology of School Readiness
Four – Higher Demands: Putting Pressure on the Non-school Ready Child
Five – Blaming the Parent
Six – Young Black Lives Matter
Seven – Inequities and Inequalities in Early Childhood Education Programs
Eight – A Call for Action
Biography
Miriam B. Tager is Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education at Westfield State University, USA.
