Quality rating systems discourses and practices are increasingly dominating early childhood care and education around the globe. These rating systems are constructed with the assumption that universally appropriate environments can be constructed for all those who are younger. This deterministic, ratings, and measurement oriented perspective is consistent with neoliberal discourses that privilege competition, accountability, consumer materialism, and notions such as human capital; this contemporary neoliberal condition does not support concern for the common good, democracy, equity, justice,...

Voices of Early Childhood Educators presents powerful, living stories of early childhood students and practitioners. Susan Bernheimer clearly shows the importance of their stories for understanding the challenges now facing our field, including valuable insights into new forms of resilience and development. Bernheimer invites college students and their instructors into an eye-opening journey with early childhood professionals today.

Inside the "Inclusive" Childhood Classroom: The Power of the "Normal" offers a critique of current practices and alternative view of inclusion.

Inside the "Inclusive" Childhood Classroom: The Power of the "Normal" offers a critique of current practices and alternative view of inclusion.

This book tells the story of activist teachers and the very young together in a play-based curriculum in a public school in Texas.

This book tells the story of activist teachers and the very young together in a play-based curriculum in a public school in Texas.