{"product_id":"early-childhood-education-in-the-united-states","title":"Early Childhood Education in the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003eEarly Childhood Education in the United States is rife with contradictions, critique and innovation. It is a time when a status quo – characterized by systemic, historic discrimination; teacher de-professionalization; 'teaching to the test'; and attacks on funding – is challenged by new technologies, new literacies and transformative and critical perspectives and practices that defy assumptions and biases to create cutting-edge, diverse instantiations of Early Childhood Education for children, families, and teachers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume, based on a special issue of the \u003ci\u003eEarly Years\u003c\/i\u003e journal written in 2016 before the new administration announced its policies, aims to generate conversations about developments in Early Childhood Education, situated within classist\/racist\/linguicist and neoliberal contexts, and to analyze critically where we are, where we might go and what we might do. It is also an opportunity to share counter-narratives to the dominant narratives promulgated by many, convinced that narrow, destructive norms of appropriate practice, standards, and accountability, as well as the curtailed\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eachievement of children of Color, those from low income communities, and emergent bilinguals are ‘common sense’. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese counter-narratives – some about \u003ci\u003etransformational \u003c\/i\u003eprojects that have generated innovative perspectives and practices, and some detailing \u003ci\u003ecritical\u003c\/i\u003e analyses and projects that go beyond to explore issues of power – contest education that disprivileges some children and families while advocating education that is child- and family-centered, culturally relevant and sustaining, equitable and democratic. Our hope is that this work creates a 'space of dialogue and human action' needed even more urgently today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book was originally published as a special issue of the \u003ci\u003eEarly Years \u003c\/i\u003ejournal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54232794792280,"sku":"9780367001384","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780367001384.jpg?v=1777194043","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/early-childhood-education-in-the-united-states","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}