Challenging the School Readiness Agenda in Early Childhood Education (Hardcover)

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 children as non-ready, affecting their overall schooling careers. Tager reflects critically on the relationship between race and school readiness, showing how the resulting exclusionary measures perpetuate the marginalization of low-income Black children from an early age. Disrupting expected notions of readiness is imperative to ending practices of structural classism and racism in early childhood education.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education
Release date:	March 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Miriam B Tager
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	124
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-67239-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Schools > Pre-school & kindergarten Promotions
LSN:	1-138-67239-4
Barcode:	9781138672390

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