Beyond Compliance in Early Childhood Education: Centering Disability, Freedom, and Belonging

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Maggie Beneke Hailey R. Love

Beyond Compliance in Early Childhood Education

Centering Disability, Freedom, and Belonging

Maggie Beneke, Hailey R. Love, Tran Nguyen Templeton

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Teachers' College Press
27 June 2025

Inclusive education & mainstreaming; Pre-school & kindergarten; Teaching of special educational needs

Series: Early Childhood Education Series

What might it mean for young children with disabilities to experience freedom and belonging from their earliest moments in school?

This volume

provides an in-depth discussion and analysis of how critical perspectives on disability can inform our work with children, families, and teachers in early childhood settings. Thirty

international contributors center disability and prioritize children's perspectives across a variety of contexts, including Head Start, community-based centers, public school classrooms, and home visiting.

This one-of-a-kind book argues that a focus on disability and ableism is necessary for countering traditional developmental perspectives and oppressive notions of ""normalcy"" to cultivate freedom and belonging for marginalized young children.

Chapter topics include:

Histories and contexts of ableism in early childhood. Affirming and supporting positive disability identity in early childhood. Creating interdependence and relationships of support with and between children in early care settings. Recognizing children's varied socio-emotional expressions as legitimate. Children's expansive, multilingual, and multimodal meaning-making in the context of standardized academic goals. Honoring marginalized families' priorities, engagement strategies, and meaningful resistance. Integrating Indigenous, Black feminist, and/or disability justice perspectives in teacher education.

Foreword by: Tran Nguyen Templeton
Edited by: Maggie Beneke, Hailey R. Love
Imprint: Teachers' College Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780807786628
ISBN 10: 0807786624
Series: Early Childhood Education Series
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 27 June 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Maggie Beneke is an associate professor in the College of Education at the University of Washington. Hailey R. Love is an assistant professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.