Challenging the School Readiness Agenda in Early Childhood Education

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Series:
Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education
Author:
Miriam B. Tager
ISBN:
9781317204671
Related ISBNs:
9781315562544, 9781138672390, 9781138672390, 9780367195823, 9780367195823, 9781315562544, 9781138672390, 9780367195823
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
124
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2020-02-27
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2017
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Education, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Sociology