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Global Perspectives on Human Capital in Early Childhood Education

Reconceptualizing Theory, Policy, and Practice

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Editors:
  1. Theodora Lightfoot-Rueda
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  2. Ruth Lynn Peach
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Part of the book series: Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood (CCSC)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Theory and History of Human Capital

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction and Historical Perspective

      • Theodora Lightfoot-Rueda, Ruth Lynn Peach
      Pages 3-25

    3. Theorizing Dialogue among Various Voices in Critical Theory

      • Joseph Zanoni
      Pages 27-43

  3. Deconstruction and Critique of Human Capital and Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
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    2. Governing the Brain: New Narratives of Human Capital in Australian Early Childhood Education

      • Zsuzsa Millei
      Pages 47-69

    3. The Instrumentality of Spanish in Early Spanish Education: Unraveling the “Linguistic Masquerade” via Storytelling

      • Alejandro Azocar
      Pages 71-86

    4. Human Capital Theory and the Promotion of the Entrepreneurial Attitude toward Early Education in Turkey

      • Sabiha Bilgi
      Pages 87-104

    5. Human Capital Theory and Shifting Perceptions of Teachers in the United States

      • Theodora Lightfoot-Rueda
      Pages 105-118

    6. Reforming Early Childhood Education as a Smart Investment for the Future: Stories from East Asia

      • I-Fang Lee, Chao-Ling Tseng, Hong-Ju Jun
      Pages 119-141

    7. England’s Foundation Stage Child in a Shifting World: Troubling Grids of Reasoning of “Children with Potential,” “Normalization,” and “Value-Added” Curriculum

      • Ruth Lynn Peach
      Pages 143-157

    8. Deconstructing Human Capital Discourse in Early Childhood Education in Indonesia

      • Vina Adriany, Kurniawan Saefullah
      Pages 159-179

  4. Reconceptualizing Education outside of Human Capital Language

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
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    2. And You Gotta Believe Me: When Social and Human Capital Collide

      • Janice Kroeger
      Pages 183-198

    3. Economistic Subjects: Questioning Early Childhood Pedagogies of Learning, Participation, and Voice

      • Emma Buchanan
      Pages 199-213

    4. How Human Capital Theory Sells Early Education Short: Revaluing Early Education through the Capabilities Approach

      • Cary A. Buzzelli
      Pages 215-229

    5. Concluding and Moving Forward

      • Theodora Lightfoot-Rueda, Ruth Lynn Peach
      Pages 231-232

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 233-240
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Human capital theory, developing children as future workers, shapes thinking about early childhood education policy around the globe. International contributors problematize this thinking and offer alternatives.

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Vina Adriany, Indonesia University of Education, Indonesia Alejandro Azocar, University of West Alabama-Livingston, USA Sabiha Bilgi, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Turkey Marianne Bloch, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Emma Buchanan, University of Melbourne, Australia Cary Buzzelli, Indiana University, USA Hong-Ju Jun, Paichai University, Korea Janice Kroeger, Kent State University, USA I-Fang Lee, University of Newcastle, Australia. Theodora Lightfoot Rueda, Interdisciplinary Institute for Research in the Social Sciences and Education, USA Zsuzsa Millei, University of Tampere, Finland Ruth Peach, National Louis University, USA Kurniawan Saefullah, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia Chao-Ling Tseng, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Joseph Zanoni, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

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