In the Pursuit of Unhappiness: The 'measuring up' of early childhood education in a seamless system
Educational Philosophy and Theory (forthcoming)
| Abstract | Recent government attention to the coherence between early childhood and compulsory school curricula in Aotearoa/New Zealand has led to debates regarding the educational aims of different education sectors. Concerns regarding a ‘push-down’ of compulsory school aims are highlighted in this article, with reference to Nel Noddings's Happiness and Education and the problem of an increased ‘measuring’ of early childhood education aims and outcomes. It is argued that removal of seams between early childhood and primary education may lead to unhappiness in early childhood education characterised by increasing standardisation and regulation and decreasing engagement with the aims of education—with, in Noddings's words, ‘aims-talk’ | |||||||||
| Keywords | measuring aims seamless New Zealand Te Whāriki Early Childhood Education curriculum | |||||||||
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