Disrupting Early Childhood Education Research - 9781138839106

Taylor & Francis

Disrupting Early Childhood Education ResearchImagining New Possibilities\nAuthor(s): Will Parnell, Jeanne Marie Iorio\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138839106, 978-1138839106\nSynopsis\nRecent and increasing efforts to standardize young childrens academic performance have shifted the emphases of education toward normative practices and away from qualitative, substantive intentions. Connection to human experience, compassion for societal ailments, and the joys of learning are straining under the pressure of quantitative research, competition, and test scores, exemplified by federal funding competitions and policymaking.\n\nDisrupting Early Childhood Education Research critically interrogates the traditional foundations of early childhood research practices to disrupt the status quo through imaginative, cutting-edge research in diverse [url] and international contexts. Its chapters are driven by empirical data de.