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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Abstract
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’.
Type: | Book chapter |
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Title: | Neoliberalism’s moment |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429030086 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10129799 |
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