Global Perspectives on Human Capital in Early Childhood Education Re
Human capital theory, developing children as future workers, shapes thinking about early childhood education policy around the globe. International contributors problematize this thinking and offer alternatives.
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ldhood Education in Aotearoa New Zealand: History, Pedagogy, and Liberation By Jenny Ritchie and Mere Skerrett Early Childhood in Postcolonial Australia: Children’s Contested Identities By Prasanna Srinivasan Rethinking Readiness in Early Childhood Education: Implications for Policy and Practice Edited by Jeanne Marie Iorio and William A. Parnell Global Perspectives on Human Capital in Early Childhood Education: Reconceptualizing Theory, Policy, and Practice Edited by Theodora Lightfoot-Rueda and Ruth Lynn Peach
Global Perspectives on Human Capital in Early Childhood Education Reconceptualizing Theory, Policy, and Practice
Edited by
Theodora Lightfoot-Rueda and Ruth Lynn Peach
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN CAPITAL IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Copyright © Theodora Lightfoot-Rueda and Ruth Lynn Peach, 2015. All rights reserved. First published in 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States— a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.
ISBN 978-1-349-56201-5 DOI 10.1057/9781137490865
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Foreword Marianne Bloch
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Part I Theory and History of Human Capital 1 Introduction and Historical Perspective Theodora Lightfoot-Rueda and Ruth Lynn Peach 2 Theorizing Dialogue among Various Voices in Critical Theory Joseph Zanoni
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Part II Deconstruction and Critique of Human Capital and Education 3 Governing the Brain: New Narratives of Human Capital in Australian Early Childhood Education Zsuzsa Millei 4 The Instrumentality of Spanish in Early Spanish Education: Unraveling the “Linguistic Masquerade” via Storytelling Alejandro Azocar 5 Human Capital Theory and the Promotion of the Entrepreneurial Attitude toward Early Education in Turkey Sabiha Bilgi 6 Human Capital Theory and Shifting Perceptions of Teachers in the United States Theodora Lightfoot-Rueda
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CONTENTS
Reforming Early Childhood Education as a Smart Investment for the Future: Stories from East Asia I-Fang Lee, Chao-Ling Tseng, and Hong-Ju Jun England’s Foundation Stage Child in a Shifting World: Troubling Grids of Reasoning of “Children with Potential,” “Normalization,” and “Value-Added” Curriculum Ruth Lynn Peach Deconstructing Human Capital Discourse in Early Childho
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