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- Title
I've got my EYE on you: Schooled Readiness, Standardized Testing, and Developmental Surveillance.
- Authors
Ashton, Emily
- Abstract
In recent years early learning and child care (ELCC) has become a significant priority area for many provincial governments, including New Brunswick (NB). The NB consortium perceives ELCC as instrumental to achieving broader economic prosperity and social wellbeing. In hopes of problematizing rather than normalizing the contemporary spotlight on ELCC, I interrogate how school readiness has become the selectively targeted problem for which pre-school developmental testing is proposed as the solution. The specific means purported to address school readiness in NB is the Early Years Evaluation - Direct Assessment (EYE-DA). While EYE-DA testing is ongoing and powerful, I conclude that the recent pan-Canadian uptake of curriculum frameworks and pedagogical documentation may incite counter possibilities and provocations for those of us working with young children.
- Subjects
CANADA; EARLY childhood education; CHILD care; READINESS for school testing; CURRICULUM frameworks; PRESCHOOL children
- Publication
Canadian Children, 2014, Vol 39, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0833-7519
- Publication type
Article