Challenging the School Readiness Agenda in Early Childhood Education (Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education)

By: Miriam B. Tager

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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 Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 124 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781317204671
Related ISBNs:: 9781315562544, 9781138672390, 9781138672390, 9780367195823, 9780367195823, 9781315562544, 9781138672390, 9780367195823
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 02/27/20
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Education, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.