Decommodification of Early Childhood Education and Care - Resisting Neoliberalism

The Decommodification of Early Childhood Education and Care: Resisting Neoliberalism explores how processes of marketisation and privatisation of ECEC have impacted understandings of children, childcare, parents, and the workforce, providing concrete examples of resistance to commodification from diverse contexts.

List of contents

Biographies
Introduction: From the politically impossible to the politically inevitable
Chapter 1. On Commodification and Decommodification
Chapter 2. Resisting children as human capital
Chapter 3. Resisting the Consumentality of Parents
Chapter 4. Resisting the alienation of the workforce
Chapter 5. Conclusions
References

About the author

Michel Vandenbroeck is an Associate Professor in Family Pedagogy at Ghent University, Belgium.
Joanne Lehrer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education at the Université du Quebec en Outaouais, Canada.
Linda Mitchell is a Professor in the Division of Education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

Summary

The Decommodification of Early Childhood Education and Care: Resisting Neoliberalism explores how processes of marketisation and privatisation of ECEC have impacted understandings of children, childcare, parents, and the workforce, providing concrete examples of resistance to commodification from diverse contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Joanne Lehrer, Linda Mitchell, Mitchell Linda, Michel Vandenbroeck, Michel (Ghent University Vandenbroeck, Michel Lehrer Vandenbroeck, Vandenbroeck Michel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032110295
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3211029-5
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Contesting Early Childhood
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Kindergarten and pre-school education; EDUCATION / General, Pre-school & kindergarten, Pre-school and kindergarten