(Re)Landscaping early childhood education in East Asia: A neoliberal economic and political imaginary

(Re)Landscaping early childhood education in East Asia: A neoliberal economic and political imaginary

• Lee, I Fang University of Newcastle, Australia

Policy Futures in Education, 16(1), 53-65, 2018

Symposium Journals

2018

• P Social Context of Education
  • PB Comparative Education
• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QB Pre-school Education, Child Caring Facilities, Maternal & Infantile Health Facilities

Foreign Countries Early Childhood Education Neoliberalism Educational Change Discourse Analysis Postmodernism Educational Policy Public Policy Human Capital Educational Vouchers Politics of Education Asia Taiwan Hong Kong South Korea

• Taiwan
• Hong Kong
• Korea

• 1997.7 onwards

• Pre-Primary Education

This article unpacks how neoliberal discourse functions as a dominant but problematic system of reasoning that changes and shifts the ways in which we come to think about early childhood education and care. A post-structuralist lens is deployed to understand the production of fears and hopes under the looming shadows of contemporary education reforms and social policies. Highlighting Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea as three cases from East Asian cultures, this article seeks to elucidate how a similar neoliberal economic and political imaginary is at work to (re)construct East Asian children as human capital for the alchemy of productive citizens in the 21st century.
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• English

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2018-06-14