Neoliberalism and early childhood education: Markets, imaginaries and governance by Guy Roberts-Holmes and Peter Moss, Oxon and New York, Routledge

Brown, Joe

Abstract

This vital book provides an accessible analysis of the role played by neo-liberalism in the reshaping of early childhood education (ECE) over the last 40 years. Utilising multiple sources of evidence, the authors provide a critical and persuasive account of how international actors have framed the world in purely economic terms, and explored the consequences of this in the form of centralised policy interventions, marketisation and performativity. As the world emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, these arguments are more important than ever, as we increasingly pose questions about the future world we wish to inhabit.

• Journal Article Type: Book Review
• Acceptance Date: Nov 26, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Dec 8, 2021
• Publication Date: Sep 19, 2022
• Deposit Date: Oct 5, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 9, 2023
• Journal: Educational Review
• Print ISSN: 0013-1911
• Electronic ISSN: 1465-3397
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 74
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1203-1204
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2021.2010343
• Keywords: Education, Neoliberalism, Early childhood education, Markets
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10005545
• Publisher URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131911.2021.2010343