Unpacking neoliberal policies: Interrupting the global and local production of the norms

• Authors: I-Fang Lee
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) has been constructed as a new site for educational, sociocultural, political, and economic investment. Coupled with such a growing and popular recognition of ECEC as a significant period of children's learning and development are critical issues concerning accountability, affordability, and accessibility to quality education and care for all. Highlighting the preschool education systems in Taiwan and Hong Kong as two examples from Asia, this paper aims to open up a discursive space for reconceptualizing the effects of neoliberal discourse and how such a system of reasoning reconstructed notions of inclusion/exclusion to limit the making of quality education and the provision of care for all.

Keywords

EN

preschool education system; neoliberalism; vouchers

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Journal of Pedagogy
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 30-42

Dates

published

2012-01-01

online

2012-08-21

Contributors

author

I-Fang Lee

• Faculty of Education and Arts, School of Education, University of Newcastle Australia, PO Box 127, Ourimbah NSW 2258, Australia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10159-012-0002-z