Understanding Early Years Inequality: Policy, Assessment and Young Children's Identities

ISBN-13: 9780415639767 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 200 str.

Alice Bradbury

Opis

This title uses critical sociological perspectives to examine the impact of changing assessment policy on primary school classrooms, with a particular focus on issues of inequality. Drawing on accounts of life in early years classrooms, Bradbury suggests that a specific model of the 'good learner' operates, and that this model works to exclude some groups of students from positions of educational success.

Spis treści

1. Policy and inequality in primary education  2. Understanding learner identities in the early years classroom  3. Assessing learners in the first year of school  4. Assessing a ‘difficult intake’: race, religion, class and gender in Reception  5. ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ learners in the classroom  6. Playing with numbers: learner identities and assessment  7. Policy, equality and ‘learning’

O autorze

Alice Bradbury is Lecturer at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.