<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) has been constructed as a new site for educational, sociocultural, political, and economic investment. Coupled with such a growing and popular recognition of ECEC as a significant period of children's learning and development are critical issues concerning accountability, affordability, and accessibility to quality education and care for all. Highlighting the preschool education systems in Taiwan and Hong Kong as two examples from Asia, this paper aims to open up a discursive space for reconceptualizing the effects of neoliberal discourse and how such a system of reasoning reconstructed notions of inclusion/exclusion to limit the making of quality education and the provision of care for all.</p></abstract>

Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) has been constructed as a new site for educational, sociocultural, political, and economic investment. Coupled with such a growing and popular recognition of ECEC as a significant period of children's learning and development are critical issues concerning accountability, affordability, and accessibility to quality education and care for all. Highlighting the preschool education systems in Taiwan and Hong Kong as two examples from Asia, this paper aims to open up a discursive space for reconceptualizing the effects of neoliberal discourse and how such a system of reasoning reconstructed notions of inclusion/exclusion to limit the making of quality education and the provision of care for all.

Unpacking neoliberal policies: Interrupting the global and local production of the norms

Faculty of Education and Arts, School of Education, University of Newcastle Australia, PO Box 127, Ourimbah NSW 2258, Australia

Journal of Pedagogy

Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) has been constructed as a new site for educational, sociocultural, political, and economic investment. Coupled with...

Unpacking neoliberal policies: Interrupting the global and local production of the norms

Published Online: Aug 21, 2012

Page range: 30 - 42

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10159-012-0002-z

Keywords
preschool education system, neoliberalism, vouchers

This content is open access.

Unpacking neoliberal policies: Interrupting the global and local production of the norms

Published Online: Aug 21, 2012

Page range: 30 - 42

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10159-012-0002-z

Keywordspreschool education system, neoliberalism, vouchers

This content is open access.

Keywords
preschool education system, neoliberalism, vouchers