Labour, Education & Society

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1 35 Antoanneta Potsi The Capability Approach and Early Childhood Education Curricula 35 Labour, Education & Society Antoanneta Potsi The Capability Approach and Early Childhood Education Curricula An Investigation into Teachers Beliefs and Practices

2 This book explores the Capability Approach (CA) as an alternative critical lens through which to regard early childhood education (ECE) curricula. The CA framework is a counter narrative to the narrow instrumentalism that reduces education to a mere process of academic skills acquisition for a future workplace. Primarily the book draws on the example of the Greek case. Criticizing the bit role that the front-line implementers play in the curriculum design and planning procedure it argues that efficient curriculum development can only occur when a zymosis between the pedagogues beliefs, practical experience, and theoretical knowledge is accomplished. Evidence shows that beliefs define the educators practices into the pedagogical context. The issues discussed are unlikely to be confined to this country alone and will have resonances on other contexts. Antoanneta Potsi holds a PhD from the Research School Education and Capabilities of the University of Bielefeld. She studied Early Childhood Education, worked as a research fellow at the University of Wuppertal, and has didactic and practical experience in Germany and Greece. Her research interests are childhood studies, social policy, inequality studies, and the capability approach as a justice approach. ISBN

3 The Capability Approach and Early Childhood Education Curricula

4 Labour, Education & Society Edited by György Széll, Heinz Sünker, Anne Inga Hilsen and Francesco Garibaldo Volume 35

5 Antoanneta Potsi The Capability Approach and Early Childhood Education Curricula An Investigation into Teachers Beliefs and Practices

6 Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at ISSN X ISBN (Print) E-ISBN (E-Book) DOI / Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Frankfurt am Main 2016 All rights reserved. PL Academic Research is an Imprint of Peter Lang GmbH. Peter Lang Frankfurt am Main Bern Bruxelles New York Oxford Warszawa Wien All parts of this publication are protected by copyright. Any utilisation outside the strict limits of the copyright law, without the permission of the publisher, is forbidden and liable to prosecution. This applies in particular to reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processing in electronic retrieval systems. This publication has been peer reviewed.

7 Arbeit, Bildung & Gesellschaft Labour, Education & Society Herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. György Széll, Prof. Dr. Heinz Sünker, Dr. Anne Inga Hilsen und Dr. Francesco Garibaldo Bd. 1 György Széll (ed.): Corporate Social Responsibility in the EU & Japan Bd. 2 Katja Maar: Zum Nutzen und Nichtnutzen der Sozialen Arbeit am exemplarischen Feld der Wohnungslosenhilfe. Eine empirische Studie Bd. 3 Daniela De Ridder: Vom urbanen Sozialraum zur kommunikativen Stadtgesellschaft Bd. 4 Heinz Sünker / Ingrid Miethe (Hrsg.): Bildungspolitik und Bildungsforschung: Herausforderungen und Perspektiven für Gesellschaft und Gewerkschaften in Deutschland Bd. 5 Anja Bastigkeit: Bildungsbiographie und elementarpädagogische Bildungsarbeit Bd. 6 Antônio Inácio Andrioli: Biosoja versus Gensoja. Eine Studie über Technik und Familienlandwirtschaft im nordwestlichen Grenzgebiet des Bundeslandes Rio Grande do Sul (Brasilien) Bd. 7 Russell Farnen / Daniel German / Henk Dekker / Christ l De Landtsheer / Heinz Suenker (eds.): Political Culture, Socialization, Democracy, and Education. Interdisciplinary and Cross-National Perspectives for a New Century Bd. 8 Francesco Garibaldo / Volker Telljohann (eds.): New Forms of Work Organisation and Industrial Relations in Southern Europe Bd. 9 Anne Marie Berg / Olav Eikeland (eds.): Action Research and Organisation Theory Bd. 10 György Széll / Carl-Heinrich Bösling / Ute Széll (eds.): Education, Labour & Science. Perspectives for the 21st Century Bd. 11 Francesco Garibaldo / Philippe Morvannou / Jochen Tholen (eds.): Is China a Risk or an Opportunity for Europe? An Assessment of the Automobile, Steel and Shipbuilding Sectors Bd. 12 Yunus Dauda: Managing Technology Innovation. The Human Resource Management Perspective Bd. 13 Jarmo Lehtonen / Satu Kalliola (eds.): Dialogue in Working Life Research and Development in Finland Bd. 14 György Széll / Werner Kamppeter / Woosik Moon (eds.): European Social Integration A Model for East Asia? Bd. 15 Benedicte Brøgger / Olav Eikeland (eds.): Turning to Practice with Action Research Bd. 16 Till Johannes Hoffmann: Verschwendung. Philosophie, Soziologie und Ökonomie des Überflusses Bd. 17 Denis Harrisson / György Széll / Reynald Bourque (eds.): Social Innovation, the Social Economy and World Economic Development Bd. 18 Werner Weltgen: Total Quality Management als Strukturierungsaufgabe für nachhaltigen Unternehmenswandel Bd. 19 György Széll / Ute Széll (eds.): Quality of Life and Working Life in Comparison Bd. 20 Francesco Garibaldo / Volker Telljohann (eds.): The Ambivalent Character of Participation. New Tendencies in Worker Participation in Europe Bd. 21 Richard Ennals / Robert H. Salomon (eds.): Older Workers in a Sustainable Society

8 Bd. 22 Christoph Sänger: Anna Siemsen Bildung und Literatur Bd. 23 Nam-Kook Kim: Deliberative Multiculturalism in Britain. A Response to Devolution, European Integration, and Multicultural Challenges Bd. 24 Mirella Baglioni / Bernd Brandl (eds.): Changing Labour Relations. Between Path Dependency and Global Trends Bd. 25 Rüdiger Kühr: Japan`s Transnational Environmental Policies. The Case of Environmental Technology Transfer to Newly Industrializing Countries Bd. 26 Francesco Garibaldo / Dinghong Yi (eds.): Labour and Sustainable Development. North- South Perspectives Bd. 27 Francesco Garibaldo / Mirella Baglioni / Catherine Casey / Volker Telljohann (eds.): Workers, Citizens, Governance. Socio-Cultural Innovation at Work Bd. 28 Simone Selva: Supra-National Integration and Domestic Economic Growth. The United States and Italy in the Western Bloc Rearmament Programs Translation by Filippo del Lucchese, revision by Simone Selva Band 29 György Széll / Roland Czada (Hrsg.): Fukushima. Die Katastrophe und ihre Folgen Band 30 Band 31 Siqi Luo: Collective Bargaining and Changing Industrial Relations in China. Lessons from the U. S. and Germany Litsa Nicolaou-Smokoviti / Heinz Sünker / Julia Rozanova / Victoria Pekka Economou (eds.): Citizenship and Social Development. Citizen Participation and Community Involvement in Social Welfare and Social Policy Band 32 Christ l De Landtsheer / Russell F. Farnen / Daniel B. German / Henk Dekker / Heinz Sünker / Yingfa Song / Hongna Miao (eds.): E-Political Socialization, the Press and Politics. The Media and Government in the USA, Europe and China Band 33 Jukka M. Krisp / Michael Szurawitzki (eds.): Doctoral Experiences in Finland Band 34 Dimosthenis Daskalakis: Greek Labour Relations in Transition in a Global Context Band 35 Antoanneta Potsi: The Capability Approach and Early Childhood Education Curricula. An Investigation into Teachers Beliefs and Practices