Description
This powerful edited collection disrupts the deficit-oriented discourses that currently frame the field of early childhood education (ECE) and illuminates avenues for critique and opportunities for change. Researchers from across the globe offer their insight and expertise in challenging the logic within ECE that often frames children and their families through gaps, risks, and deficits across such issues as poverty, language, developmental psychology, teaching, and learning. Chapters propose practical responses to these manufactured crises and advocate for democratic practices and policies that enable ECE programs to build on the wealth of cultural and personal knowledge children and families bring to the early learning process. Moving beyond a dependence on deficits, this book offers opportunities for scholars, researchers, and students to consider their practices in early education and develop their understanding of what it means to be an educator who seeks to support all children.
Table of Contents
1. Introducing the Text and Examining the Emergence, Maintenance, and Expansion of Gaps, Deficits, and Risks Through Early Childhood Policy
Christopher P. Brown
2. Dismantling Racialized Discourses in Early Childhood Education and Care: A Revolution Towards Reframing the Field
Michelle Salazar Pérez
3. Pláticas on Disrupting Language Ideologies in the Borderlands
Cinthya M. Saavedra and J. Joy Esquierdo
4. Rejecting Deficit Views of Children in Poverty in Favor of a Philosophy of Abundance
Curt Dudley-Marling
5. A Capability-Oriented Lens: Reframing the Early Years Education of Children with Disabilities
Maryam Dalkilic
6. Fighting for The Unity of Care and Education in Early Childhood: Understanding and Disrupting Challenges to Professional Knowledge and Action
Patricia M. Cooper
7. Disrupting Standardized Early Education Through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies with Young Children
Ranita Cheruvu
8. Deconstructing Child Rights in Special Educational Needs: Representations of Deficit and Development in Educational Psychology
Laura Goodfellow and Erica Burman
9. More-Than-Human Kinship Relations within Indigenous Children’s Picture Books
Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw And Meagan Montpetit
10. Listening to and Telling a Rush of Unruly Natureculture Gender Stories
Mindy Blaise and Tonya Rooney
11. Disrupting Racial Capitalist Formations in Early Childhood Education
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