So what is going on? by Linda Henderson https://padlet.com/linda_henderson1/2fdb78ac9kg0za3w en-us 2021-06-30 02:37:13 UTC 2021-07-29 08:25:48 UTC hello@padlet.com ...so what is going on? linda_henderson1 https://padlet.com/linda_henderson1/2fdb78ac9kg0za3w/wish/1630994146 There's a lot of talk in early childhood education and care (ECEC) today about 'outcomes' and 'quality', 'testing' and 'assessment', 'interventions' and 'programmes', 'evidence-based' and 'best practice', 'investment' and 'human capital', 'preparation' and 'readiness', 'markets and marketing'. But why do we talk like this about ECEC, in such technical, instrumental and economists terms? Why have we come to accept such language so unquestionably as the normal and obvious way to discuss the education of young children? What are the consequences of this language and the thinking behind it? What is going on? 

Robert-Holmes, G., & Moss, P. (2021). Neoliberalism and early childhood education: markets, imaginaries and governance. Routledge. 

]]> 2021-06-30 02:38:37 UTC https://padlet.com/linda_henderson1/2fdb78ac9kg0za3w/wish/1630994146 What are the risks? aalo0013 https://padlet.com/linda_henderson1/2fdb78ac9kg0za3w/wish/1663930687 I think the risk is about staff who are not skilled and
knowledgeable.]]> 2021-07-29 08:12:58 UTC https://padlet.com/linda_henderson1/2fdb78ac9kg0za3w/wish/1663930687 rdel0011 https://padlet.com/linda_henderson1/2fdb78ac9kg0za3w/wish/1663932931 I think continuing to view early childhood education in terms of an investment, builds on that idea of it becoming a commodity where the result to seek is profitability, which leads to the sector becoming one that has less focus on education in terms of its value for children and their future, and more on how it will benefit others. ]]> 2021-07-29 08:16:25 UTC https://padlet.com/linda_henderson1/2fdb78ac9kg0za3w/wish/1663932931 Risk csneg1 https://padlet.com/linda_henderson1/2fdb78ac9kg0za3w/wish/1663935051 I think the risk is what families will eventually expect as 'quality".

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