Global Perspectives on Human Capital in Early Childhood Education: Reconceptualizing Theory, Policy, and Practice

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction and Historical Perspective....Pages 3-25
Theorizing Dialogue among Various Voices in Critical Theory....Pages 27-43
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Governing the Brain: New Narratives of Human Capital in Australian Early Childhood Education....Pages 47-69
The Instrumentality of Spanish in Early Spanish Education: Unraveling the “Linguistic Masquerade” via Storytelling....Pages 71-86
Human Capital Theory and the Promotion of the Entrepreneurial Attitude toward Early Education in Turkey....Pages 87-104
Human Capital Theory and Shifting Perceptions of Teachers in the United States....Pages 105-118
Reforming Early Childhood Education as a Smart Investment for the Future: Stories from East Asia....Pages 119-141
England’s Foundation Stage Child in a Shifting World: Troubling Grids of Reasoning of “Children with Potential,” “Normalization,” and “Value-Added” Curriculum....Pages 143-157
Deconstructing Human Capital Discourse in Early Childhood Education in Indonesia....Pages 159-179
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And You Gotta Believe Me: When Social and Human Capital Collide....Pages 183-198
Economistic Subjects: Questioning Early Childhood Pedagogies of Learning, Participation, and Voice....Pages 199-213
How Human Capital Theory Sells Early Education Short: Revaluing Early Education through the Capabilities Approach....Pages 215-229
Concluding and Moving Forward....Pages 231-232
Back Matter....Pages 233-240