‘Seen but not heard’. Practitioners work with poverty and the organising out of disadvantaged children’s voices and participation in the early years
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-4-2017
Abstract
Living in poverty disadvantages young children reducing school readiness. ‘Pedagogy of listening’ can potentially support resilience remediating against poverty’s negative effects. Little, though, is known about how early childhood education and care (ECEC) practitioners work with children in poverty and the attainment gap between such children and their peers remains significant within England and the US. This article reports research using a mixed methodology which explored these issues in localities across both these countries. We argue a dominant technocratic model of early years provision in these contexts creates normalisation and diversity reduction. This, and austerity measures, stymie pedagogical space and practice organising out listening to children in poverty. We suggest this may help explain why the attainment gap remains so stubbornly resistant to reduction across these countries.
Publication Title
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal
Volume
25
Issue
2
First Page
177
Last Page
188
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1080/1350293X.2017.1288014
ISSN
1350293X
E-ISSN
17521807
Citation Information
Simpson, Loughran, S., Lumsden, E., Mazzocco, P., Clark, R. M., & Winterbottom, C. (2017). “Seen but not heard”. Practitioners work with poverty and the organising out of disadvantaged children’s voices and participation in the early years. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 25(2), 177–188. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2017.1288014