Global Perspectives on Human Capital in Early Childhood Education

Part I. Theory and History of Human Capital

1. Introduction and Historical Perspective
Theodora Lightfoot-Rueda, Ruth Lynn Peach

2. Theorizing Dialogue among Various Voices in Critical Theory
Joseph Zanoni

Part II. Deconstruction and Critique of Human Capital and Education

3. Governing the Brain: New Narratives of Human Capital in Australian Early Childhood Education
Zsuzsa Millei

4. The Instrumentality of Spanish in Early Spanish Education: Unraveling the “Linguistic Masquerade” via Storytelling
Alejandro Azocar

5. Human Capital Theory and the Promotion of the Entrepreneurial Attitude toward Early Education in Turkey
Sabiha Bilgi

6. Human Capital Theory and Shifting Perceptions of Teachers in the United States
Theodora Lightfoot-Rueda

7. Reforming Early Childhood Education as a Smart Investment for the Future: Stories from East Asia
I-Fang Lee, Chao-Ling Tseng, Hong-Ju Jun

8. England’s Foundation Stage Child in a Shifting World: Troubling Grids of Reasoning of “Children with Potential,” “Normalization,” and “Value-Added” Curriculum
Ruth Lynn Peach

9. Deconstructing Human Capital Discourse in Early Childhood Education in Indonesia
Vina Adriany, Kurniawan Saefullah

Part III. Reconceptualizing Education outside of Human Capital Language

10. And You Gotta Believe Me: When Social and Human Capital Collide
Janice Kroeger

11. Economistic Subjects: Questioning Early Childhood Pedagogies of Learning, Participation, and Voice
Emma Buchanan

12. How Human Capital Theory Sells Early Education Short: Revaluing Early Education through the Capabilities Approach
Cary A. Buzzelli

13. Concluding and Moving Forward
Theodora Lightfoot-Rueda, Ruth Lynn Peach

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, International and Comparative Education, Childhood Education, Educational Policy and Politics