The Decommodification of Early Childhood Education and Care: Resisting Neoliberalism explores how processes of marketisation and privatisation of ECEC have impacted understandings of children, childcare, parents, and the workforce, providing concrete examples of resistance to commodification from diverse contexts.

Michel Vandenbroeck is an Associate Professor in Family Pedagogy at Ghent University, Belgium.

Joanne Lehrer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education at the Université du Quebec en Outaouais, Canada.

Linda Mitchell is a Professor in the Division of Education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

Biographies

Introduction: From the politically impossible to the politically inevitable

Chapter 1. On Commodification and Decommodification

Chapter 2. Resisting children as human capital

Chapter 3. Resisting the Consumentality of Parents

Chapter 4. Resisting the alienation of the workforce

Chapter 5. Conclusions

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