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Early Years Learning, play pedagogy and social class
journal contribution
posted on 2016-04-25, 10:17 authored by Julie StirrupJulie Stirrup, John Evans, Brian DaviesDespite 50 and more years of ‘progressive education’ in the UK, classed patterns of educational success and failure stubbornly prevail. So how, where and when does it all go wrong for the many children who continue to fail or underachieve? Drawing on the work of Basil Bernstein this paper centers processes within early years’ education, which are claimed to help launch children on careers as either educational successes or failures. Our data suggest that in the progressive play pedagogies of Early Years Education (EYE) children more or less happily play their lives away, in the process learning their position in social and ability hierarchies that help define their future careers in and outside schools. That such hierarchies prevail is neither fault of teachers nor parents. Indeed, it is what EYE settings are legitimized to do; sieve and sort, make children ‘school ready’, pliant and prepared for a lifetime of learning to succeed or fail.
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British Journal of Sociology of EducationVolume
38Issue
6Pages
872-886Citation
STIRRUP, J., EVANS, J. and DAVIES, B., 2017. Early Years Learning, play pedagogy and social class. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 38 (6), pp. 872-886.Publisher
© Taylor & FrancisVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2016-04-12Publication date
2016-06-02Copyright date
2017Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in British Journal of Sociology of Education on 02 Jun 2016, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2016.1182010ISSN
0142-5692eISSN
1465-3346Publisher version
Language
- en