EDITORIAL
Zuzana Danišková:
Unwrapping today’s educational gifts is a must
ARTICLES
And... more EDITORIAL
Zuzana Danišková:
Unwrapping today’s educational gifts is a must
ARTICLES
Andrew Wilkins:
Public battles and private takeovers: Academies and the politics
of educational governance
I-Fang Lee:
Unpacking neoliberal policies: Interrupting the global and local production of the norms
David Greger, Edward Kife:
Lost in translation: Ever changing and competing purposes for national examinations in the Czech Republic
Michaela Minarechová:
Negative impacts of high-stakes testing
Libor Bernát:
The shaping of the Lutheran teaching profession and Lutheran families of teachers in the 16th and 17th centuries
Katarína Šmajdová Búšová:
Professional families – the development of the relationship between a professional mother and the child in the context of the mother’s status
Kelly M. Maye:
A Case study of cognitive and biophysical models of education as linked to anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders
REPORTS
Standardization and Normalization of Childhood (Miriam Böttner, Jessica Schwittek, Aytüre Türkyilmaz)
REVIEWS
Málková, Gabriela: Zprostředkované učení. Jak učit žáky myslet a učit se (Marta Filičková)
Care in the early years entails more than childcare. This paper has three major sections. In the ... more Care in the early years entails more than childcare. This paper has three major sections. In the first section, I begin with an introduction and a quick overview of the ECEC system in Australia. This snapshot of the Australian ECEC system presents a messy map of the care and education system for young children under a neoliberal political economy to elucidate what this may mean in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. With this contextual background of the ECEC system in Australia, in the second section I discuss my theoretical, ethical, political, ontological, and epistemological positioning when re-imagining and reconceptualizing what a socially just ECEC landscape might look like through the lens of a feminism approach. This onto-epistemological discussion explains the shift toward a feminist approach and how this enables me to (re)think about care and education in the early years differently. Taking up this different set of analytical tools with a post-structural sensibility of the...
With an unprecedented number of children in early childhood education and care in Australia, dema... more With an unprecedented number of children in early childhood education and care in Australia, demand for early childhood teachers is increasing. This demand is in the context of recognition of the importance of the early years and increasing requirements for more highly qualified early childhood teachers under the National Quality Framework. Increasingly, evidence shows the value-added difference of university-qualified teachers to child outcomes. Within Australia there are multiple ways to become an early childhood teacher. Three common approaches are a 4-year teaching degree to teach children aged birth to 5 years, children aged birth to 8 years, or children aged birth to 12 years. There is, however, no evidence of how effective these degree programmes are. This paper presents the perspectives of 19 employers of early childhood teachers in New South Wales regarding how well prepared early childhood teacher graduates are to work in the early childhood sector in Australia. Although p...
This article unpacks how neoliberal discourse functions as a dominant but problematic system of r... more This article unpacks how neoliberal discourse functions as a dominant but problematic system of reasoning that changes and shifts the ways in which we come to think about early childhood education and care. A post-structuralist lens is deployed to understand the production of fears and hopes under the looming shadows of contemporary education reforms and social policies. Highlighting Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea as three cases from East Asian cultures, this article seeks to elucidate how a similar neoliberal economic and political imaginary is at work to (re)construct East Asian children as human capital for the alchemy of productive citizens in the 21st century.
Unpacking neoliberal policies: Interrupting the global and local production of the normsEarly Chi... more Unpacking neoliberal policies: Interrupting the global and local production of the normsEarly 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.
EDITORIAL
Zuzana Danišková:
Unwrapping today’s educational gifts is a must
ARTICLES
And... more EDITORIAL
Zuzana Danišková:
Unwrapping today’s educational gifts is a must
ARTICLES
Andrew Wilkins:
Public battles and private takeovers: Academies and the politics
of educational governance
I-Fang Lee:
Unpacking neoliberal policies: Interrupting the global and local production of the norms
David Greger, Edward Kife:
Lost in translation: Ever changing and competing purposes for national examinations in the Czech Republic
Michaela Minarechová:
Negative impacts of high-stakes testing
Libor Bernát:
The shaping of the Lutheran teaching profession and Lutheran families of teachers in the 16th and 17th centuries
Katarína Šmajdová Búšová:
Professional families – the development of the relationship between a professional mother and the child in the context of the mother’s status
Kelly M. Maye:
A Case study of cognitive and biophysical models of education as linked to anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders
REPORTS
Standardization and Normalization of Childhood (Miriam Böttner, Jessica Schwittek, Aytüre Türkyilmaz)
REVIEWS
Málková, Gabriela: Zprostředkované učení. Jak učit žáky myslet a učit se (Marta Filičková)
Care in the early years entails more than childcare. This paper has three major sections. In the ... more Care in the early years entails more than childcare. This paper has three major sections. In the first section, I begin with an introduction and a quick overview of the ECEC system in Australia. This snapshot of the Australian ECEC system presents a messy map of the care and education system for young children under a neoliberal political economy to elucidate what this may mean in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. With this contextual background of the ECEC system in Australia, in the second section I discuss my theoretical, ethical, political, ontological, and epistemological positioning when re-imagining and reconceptualizing what a socially just ECEC landscape might look like through the lens of a feminism approach. This onto-epistemological discussion explains the shift toward a feminist approach and how this enables me to (re)think about care and education in the early years differently. Taking up this different set of analytical tools with a post-structural sensibility of the...
With an unprecedented number of children in early childhood education and care in Australia, dema... more With an unprecedented number of children in early childhood education and care in Australia, demand for early childhood teachers is increasing. This demand is in the context of recognition of the importance of the early years and increasing requirements for more highly qualified early childhood teachers under the National Quality Framework. Increasingly, evidence shows the value-added difference of university-qualified teachers to child outcomes. Within Australia there are multiple ways to become an early childhood teacher. Three common approaches are a 4-year teaching degree to teach children aged birth to 5 years, children aged birth to 8 years, or children aged birth to 12 years. There is, however, no evidence of how effective these degree programmes are. This paper presents the perspectives of 19 employers of early childhood teachers in New South Wales regarding how well prepared early childhood teacher graduates are to work in the early childhood sector in Australia. Although p...
This article unpacks how neoliberal discourse functions as a dominant but problematic system of r... more This article unpacks how neoliberal discourse functions as a dominant but problematic system of reasoning that changes and shifts the ways in which we come to think about early childhood education and care. A post-structuralist lens is deployed to understand the production of fears and hopes under the looming shadows of contemporary education reforms and social policies. Highlighting Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea as three cases from East Asian cultures, this article seeks to elucidate how a similar neoliberal economic and political imaginary is at work to (re)construct East Asian children as human capital for the alchemy of productive citizens in the 21st century.
Unpacking neoliberal policies: Interrupting the global and local production of the normsEarly Chi... more Unpacking neoliberal policies: Interrupting the global and local production of the normsEarly 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.
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Zuzana Danišková:
Unwrapping today’s educational gifts is a must
ARTICLES
Andrew Wilkins:
Public battles and private takeovers: Academies and the politics
of educational governance
I-Fang Lee:
Unpacking neoliberal policies: Interrupting the global and local production of the norms
David Greger, Edward Kife:
Lost in translation: Ever changing and competing purposes for national examinations in the Czech Republic
Michaela Minarechová:
Negative impacts of high-stakes testing
Libor Bernát:
The shaping of the Lutheran teaching profession and Lutheran families of teachers in the 16th and 17th centuries
Katarína Šmajdová Búšová:
Professional families – the development of the relationship between a professional mother and the child in the context of the mother’s status
Kelly M. Maye:
A Case study of cognitive and biophysical models of education as linked to anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders
REPORTS
Standardization and Normalization of Childhood (Miriam Böttner, Jessica Schwittek, Aytüre Türkyilmaz)
REVIEWS
Málková, Gabriela: Zprostředkované učení. Jak učit žáky myslet a učit se (Marta Filičková)
Papers by I-Fang Lee
Zuzana Danišková:
Unwrapping today’s educational gifts is a must
ARTICLES
Andrew Wilkins:
Public battles and private takeovers: Academies and the politics
of educational governance
I-Fang Lee:
Unpacking neoliberal policies: Interrupting the global and local production of the norms
David Greger, Edward Kife:
Lost in translation: Ever changing and competing purposes for national examinations in the Czech Republic
Michaela Minarechová:
Negative impacts of high-stakes testing
Libor Bernát:
The shaping of the Lutheran teaching profession and Lutheran families of teachers in the 16th and 17th centuries
Katarína Šmajdová Búšová:
Professional families – the development of the relationship between a professional mother and the child in the context of the mother’s status
Kelly M. Maye:
A Case study of cognitive and biophysical models of education as linked to anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders
REPORTS
Standardization and Normalization of Childhood (Miriam Böttner, Jessica Schwittek, Aytüre Türkyilmaz)
REVIEWS
Málková, Gabriela: Zprostředkované učení. Jak učit žáky myslet a učit se (Marta Filičková)