You are here

“Same, same but different”: The dangers of binary definitions of dis/ability in the neoliberal marketplace of early childhood education and care

Lesley Lyons
Abstract: 

This article questions whether the increased involvement of private enterprise in the ECEC sector in recent years has unintentionally reinforced a simplistic understanding of disability. Reliance on such understandings will restrict access to meaningful, respectful curriculum in the sector for children with disabilities. Given that Aotearoa/New Zealand’s ECEC curriculum document specifically describes curriculum as being all of the ECEC experiences, activities and events that a child engages in, either directly or indirectly, restricted access to early childhood education for children with disability is a curriculum concern.

Purchase the full text of this article

$25.00