Out of Place: Economic imperialisms in early childhood education
| Autor: | Margaret Joan Stuart |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Early childhood education
05 social sciences 050301 education Human capital Education History and Philosophy of Science Memoir Pedagogy Pacific islanders 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology Traditional knowledge Philosophy of education Sociocultural evolution 0503 education Curriculum 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Educational Philosophy and Theory. 48:138-149 |
| ISSN: | 1469-5812 0013-1857 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00131857.2014.971094 |
| Popis: | New Zealand has received world-wide accolades for its Early Childhood Education (ECE) curriculum, Te Whāriki. This paper explores the tension between economic imperialism, and a curriculum acknowledged as visionary. The foundational ideas of Te Whāriki emanate from sociocultural and anti-racist pedagogies. However, its implementation is hampered by the overarching policy discourse of Human Capital Theory (HCT), with its instrumental emphasis on economic outcomes. While Te Whāriki offers local cultural and educational possibilities, HCT is presented by those espousing economic disciplines, as having universal application. These tensions, largely unacknowledged and unexplored, place ECE teachers in positions of difficulty. While trying to meet aspirational curriculum goals in their daily practices, teachers’ attempts are constrained by supranational economic discourses. I ask how Edward Said’s (1999, Out of place: A memoir, New York, Knopf) concept of contrapuntal readings can offer spaces for resis... |
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