What can early childhood scholars learn from neurosciences and its influence on children, education, policy and practice? This book explores and critiques topical debates in educational sciences, philosophy, social work and cognitive neuroscience. It examines constructions of children, parents and the welfare state, in relation to neurosciences and its vocabulary of brain architecture, critical periods and toxic stress.

Preface 1. Introduction: Constructions of Truth in Early Childhood Education: A History of the Present Abuse of Neurosciences 2. The Neuroturn in Education: Between the Scylla of Psychologisation and the Charybdis of Digitalization? 3. Using your Brain: Child Development, Parenting and Politics of Evidence 4. Anything to Divert Attention from Poverty 5. The Complexity of Translating Neuroscience to Education: The Case of Number Processing Discussion

Michel Vandenbroeck is head of the Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy at Ghent University.