ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains the dislike for today's dominant stories about early childhood education: the story of quality and high returns and the story of markets. It also talks about the story of democracy, experimentation and potentiality, and discusses some of the design features or structural conditions that might be supportive of the enactment of this story. The book deals with Wright's third criterion for evaluating real utopias: achievability that is what it would take to actually implement the proposals. It involves the political and economic conditions and strategies necessary to bring about widespread and sustained transformative change, to move from the design stage to widespread application. The book explores few examples such as the pedagogy of listening in municipal schools in Reggio Emilia or the experimentation in Swedish preschools, showing the virtues of a transformative change that is still to come.
