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Challenging the School Readiness Agenda in Early Childhood Education

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Challenging the School Readiness Agenda in Early Childhood Education

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Challenging the School Readiness Agenda in Early Childhood Education

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Challenging the School Readiness Agenda in Early Childhood Education book

ByMiriam B. Tager
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 17 June 2019
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315562544
Pages 136
eBook ISBN 9781315562544
Subjects Education, Social Sciences
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Tager, M.B. (2017). Challenging the School Readiness Agenda in Early Childhood Education (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315562544

ABSTRACT

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|18 pages

Introducing the Non-School Ready Child

chapter 2|11 pages

The Historical Context of the Non-School Ready Child

chapter 3|16 pages

The Ecology of School Readiness

chapter 4|17 pages

Higher Demands

Putting Pressure on the Identified Non-School Ready Child

chapter 5|16 pages

Blaming the Parents

chapter 6|14 pages

Young Black Lives Matter

chapter 7|11 pages

Inequities and Inequalities in Early Childhood Education Programs

chapter 8|13 pages

A Call for Action

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