PROMISING WHAT THROUGH PRESCHOOL VOUCHERS? : ILLUSIONS OF FREEDOM, EQUALITY, AND DEMOCRACY

ISBN-13: 9783836484688 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 152 str.

I-Fang Lee

Opis

Highlighting the deployment of preschool vouchers in Taiwan as an example, this book discusses how particular notions of freedom, equity, and democracy are mobilized to make contemporary educational reform discourses intelligible. While recognizing the need to reform in order to create a more inclusive educational system for the benefits of all children, the main purpose of this book is to raise our awareness of the ways in which contemporary reform policies and discourses prescribe certain solutions as the miracle answer to fix all problems. Therefore, without the problematization and reconceptualization of reform discourses to critically reflect on what we think we know, contemporary educational reform discourses may appear to promise freedom, equity, and democracy for all, but producing illusions of inclusionary reasoning (e.g., greater choice, freedom, or democracy) while exclusions remain unexamined.

O autorze

I-Fang Lee received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-
Madison. Her research interests focus on critical and post-
structural theories of early childhood education and educational
reform policies and issues. She is currently an Assistant
Professor of Early Childhood Education at the Hong Kong
Institute of Education.