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Understanding early years inequality : policy, assessment and young children's identities /

By: Bradbury, Alice [author.].
Publisher: London Routledge, New York : 2013Description: xii, 184 pages ; 26 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780415639767; 9780415639767:; 041563976X; 9780415639774; 0415639778; 9780203083185; 0203083180.Subject(s): Early childhood education -- Social aspects -- Great Britain | Educational equalization -- Great BritainDDC classification: 379.26 BRA
Contents:
Policy and inequality in primary education -- Understanding learner identities in the early years classroom -- Assessing learners in the first year of school -- Assessing a 'difficult intake': 'Race', religion, class and gender in reception -- 'Good' and 'bad' learners in the classroom -- Playing with numbers: Learner identities and assessment -- Policy, equality and 'learning'.
Summary: "Understanding Early Years Inequality 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, Alice 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. Key themes examined throughout the book relate to: - The relationship between assessment policy and children's identities as learners; - The complexity of classroom life; - The power of assessment to shape definitions of 'learning' and 'learners'; - The impact of discourses of class, race, religion and the 'inner city' on how children are assessed. In this important text, the author argues that assessment policies can have a huge impact on classrooms and teachers, as well as having potentially damaging effects for young children, particularly those from minoritised and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The book will explore in detail the complex interaction of education policies with discourses of attainment and expectation, and the resulting reproduction of patterns of inequality. Understanding Early Years Inequality will have an immediate impact on current debates about educational policy and practice in Early Years education, and will be of particular interest to academics and students in educational studies, sociology of education, and early childhood studies"--Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-179) and index.

Policy and inequality in primary education -- Understanding learner identities in the early years classroom -- Assessing learners in the first year of school -- Assessing a 'difficult intake': 'Race', religion, class and gender in reception -- 'Good' and 'bad' learners in the classroom -- Playing with numbers: Learner identities and assessment -- Policy, equality and 'learning'.

"Understanding Early Years Inequality 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, Alice 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. Key themes examined throughout the book relate to: - The relationship between assessment policy and children's identities as learners; - The complexity of classroom life; - The power of assessment to shape definitions of 'learning' and 'learners'; - The impact of discourses of class, race, religion and the 'inner city' on how children are assessed. In this important text, the author argues that assessment policies can have a huge impact on classrooms and teachers, as well as having potentially damaging effects for young children, particularly those from minoritised and economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The book will explore in detail the complex interaction of education policies with discourses of attainment and expectation, and the resulting reproduction of patterns of inequality. Understanding Early Years Inequality will have an immediate impact on current debates about educational policy and practice in Early Years education, and will be of particular interest to academics and students in educational studies, sociology of education, and early childhood studies"--

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.

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