Challenging the School Readiness Agenda in Early Childhood Education (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.

• | Author: Miriam B. Tager
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Mar 24, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 124 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138672394
• | ISBN-13: 9781138672390