The OECD and the Notion of Expert in Early Childhood Education and Care: A Play
Abstract
This manuscript is an academic play about how differing discourses are at work related to public policy. The critical performance reveals clashes of opinion and epistemological dissonance. By transgressing normalised academic text production and instead inserting a postmodern pastiche, the play dramatizes a poly-vocal deconstruction of the concept of expert. The authorial voice of a commissioned report writer and selected voices of early childhood educators who reconceptualise the field are at odds. The play is a document of the recent past that paraphrases words of actual people and can be read as an historical construction of early childhood policy and critical issues.Downloads
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2012-07-26
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