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Transformative Change and Real Utopias in Early Childhood Education A story of democracy, experimentation and potentiality
By Peter Moss
Copyright 2014
238 Pages
37 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
238 Pages
37 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
238 Pages
37 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Early childhood education and care is a major policy issue for national governments and international organisations. This book contests two stories, both infused by neoliberal thinking, that dominate early childhood policy making today - ‘the story of quality and high returns’ and ‘the story of markets’, stories that promise high returns on investment if only the right technologies are applied... Read more
1. The dictatorship of no alternative: the emergent global model of early childhood education 2. Democratic experimentalism: values and practices 3. Sustaining democratic experimentalism 4. The turn to democratic experimentation: why now?
Biography
Peter Moss is Emeritus Professor of Early Childhood Provision at the Institute of Education University of London, UK.
"If you read this with an open mind, the hope, wonder and realisation that it could actually be achieved creeps in and makes your heart beat a little faster with the excitement and hope in it!" - Early Years Educator Magazine
