Challenging the School Readiness Agenda in Early Childhood Education

Miriam B. Tager

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English

Routledge
07 June 2019

Ethnic studies; Sociology; Moral & social purpose of education; Educational strategies & policy; Pre-school & kindergarten

Series: Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education

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.

By: Miriam B. Tager
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367195823
ISBN 10: 0367195828
Series: Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education
Pages: 136
Publication Date: 07 June 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Miriam B. Tager is Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education at Westfield State University, USA.