Roberts-Holmes, G; Moss, P; (2021) Neoliberalism’s moment. In: Neoliberalism and Early Childhood Education: Markets, Imaginaries and Governance. (pp. 1-29). Routledge: London, UK.

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There’s a lot of talk in early childhood education and care today about ‘outcomes’ and ‘quality’, ‘testing’ and ‘assessment’, ‘interventions’ and ‘programmes’, the ‘evidence-based’ and ‘best practice’, ‘investment’ and ‘human capital’, ‘preparation’ and ‘readiness’, ‘markets and marketing’. To propose a relationship between neoliberalism and education is not original; much has been written about the deep penetration of neoliberalism into this field. Most of the work, though, has focused on compulsory and higher education, neoliberalism in the school and the university. Competition, choice and calculation are central themes of neoliberalism, and these operate through the medium of the market and transactions in it between buyers and sellers. While it is too soon to comprehend the full impact and future consequences of Covid-19, people felt the need to acknowledge its significance to the narrative, so have added a last minute ‘pandemic postscript’.

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