ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on the viability part of the project, offering systemic theoretical models of how particular social structures and institutions would work. The story of democracy, experimentation and potentiality has been enacted; the Crow Project has provided one example though admittedly not widely, largely in isolated cases that are often precarious, struggling to survive. The chapter examines the likelihood of achieving transformative change in early childhood education, confronting the apparently insuperable barrier of neoliberalism as the dominant political economy. It also focuses on viability: the conditions for enactment of my story, the major features in the design of an early childhood education of democracy, experimentation and potentiality. In cases where the story of democracy, experimentation and potentiality have been enacted in instances such as the early childhood education of Reggio Emilia or the Crow Project in Sweden human agency has played an important part.