Challenging the School Readiness Agenda in Early Childhood Education

by Miriam B Tager

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367195828
• ISBN13: 9780367195823
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 8.9"