Transformative change and real utopias in early childhood education : a story of democracy, experimentation and potentiality
Early childhood education Democracy and education Education and state Educational change sähkökirjat
Routledge
2014
EISBN 9781315779904
1. Telling stories, transformative change and real utopias.
2. Two early childhood education stories : quality and high returns and markets.
3. The story of neoliberalism : a grand narrative of our time.
4. Transformative change : the story of democracy, experimentation and potentiality.
5. Democracy, experimentation and democratic experimentalism.
6. The crow project : a local enactment of the story of democracy, experimentation and potentiality.
7. What conditions to enact the story of democracy, experimentation and potentiality.
8. Real utopia - or pie in the sky?
"Early childhood education and care is a major policy issue among national governments and international organisations, promising high returns on social investment. Policy discussions are dominated by one model of provision, infused by neoliberal thinking, which constructs a formula of 'high quality', standardised goals and competition. This ground-breaking new book explores an alternative: an early childhood education and care with democracy and experimentation as fundamental values, providing a public space for citizens, young and adult, to encounter and create many projects, creating a collective workshop of many possibilities"--
2. Two early childhood education stories : quality and high returns and markets.
3. The story of neoliberalism : a grand narrative of our time.
4. Transformative change : the story of democracy, experimentation and potentiality.
5. Democracy, experimentation and democratic experimentalism.
6. The crow project : a local enactment of the story of democracy, experimentation and potentiality.
7. What conditions to enact the story of democracy, experimentation and potentiality.
8. Real utopia - or pie in the sky?
"Early childhood education and care is a major policy issue among national governments and international organisations, promising high returns on social investment. Policy discussions are dominated by one model of provision, infused by neoliberal thinking, which constructs a formula of 'high quality', standardised goals and competition. This ground-breaking new book explores an alternative: an early childhood education and care with democracy and experimentation as fundamental values, providing a public space for citizens, young and adult, to encounter and create many projects, creating a collective workshop of many possibilities"--
