Fast Childcare in Public Preschools - 9781138500181

Taylor & Francis

Fast Childcare in Public PreschoolsThe Utopia of Efficiency\nAuthor(s): Renita Thedvall\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138500181, 978-1138500181\nSynopsis\nFast Childcare in Public Preschools presents an ethnographic examination of the implementation of fast-policy management models and the efforts of teachers to use these to improve their work organization, and the frictions this brings. Using examples from Swedish public preschools, the book focuses on essential areas of the Lean management model in particular, bringing to life concepts relating to the care and education of children. The book draws on international childcare policy and public reforms, exploring the assignments that preschools are set and argues that separating the pedagogical and the organizational as suggested by proponents of management models is not possible.\n\nThis book considers Jamie Peck and Nik Theodores work on fast policy and model.