Challenging the School Readiness Agenda in Early Childhood Education Contributor(s): Tager, Miriam B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367195828 ISBN-13: 9780367195823 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | Educational Policy & Reform - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects - Education | Early Childhood (incl. Preschool & Kindergarten) |
Dewey: 372.21 |
Series: Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education |
Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5.8" W x 8.9" (0.45 lbs) 136 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |