Removing the guardrails of democracy: Silencing critique of early childhood policy and practice

Michael-Luna, Sara; Castner, Daniel

doi:10.1177/14639491231155971

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“…As HB 1557 and generally any anti-LGBTQ+ legislation can be interpreted as a violation of the equal protection clause, this research suggests that it is important for citizens to get involved in motivating the federal government to speak up on state laws that disenfranchise non-straight peoples (Rosky, 2022). Other research blames the rise of HB 1557 and similar copycat bills on the general rise of authoritarianism in America (Michael-Luna and Castner, 2023). Other limited research has been done regarding Disney World's response to HB 1557, but it is not relevant in the context of this paper.…”

Section: Literature Assessing Hb 1557mentioning

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Double List Analysis Assessing the Impact of Anti-Queer Legislation

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In this study, we assess the extent to which individuals in the United States misreport their attitudes regarding anti-LGBTQ+ educational legislation. Specifically, this study focuses on the Floridian bill HB 1557, or the "Don't Say Gay," bill. We utilize the inherently anonymous list experiment to minimize the prevalence of social desirability bias to elicit truthful responses from participants. We conduct two double list experiments to explore multiple facets of HB 1557. The size of the bias for each list is estimated by a difference-of-means analysis and can be viewed as a lower-bound estimate of the population's true views.This study was conducted via Prolific and gathered a sample that is representative of the larger American population on the basis of age, sex and race. We find that 69% of Americans would be comfortable with their child having an openly LGBTQ+ teacher, and 61% of Americans believe that the laws should allow for the inclusion of LGBTQ+ content in educational curriculum. Notably, we do not find the presence of social desirability regarding participant's views on LGBTQ+ content in educational curriculum. We also find that Americans significantly underestimate the amount of support on a national level for both of these concepts. These results build on the field of LGBTQ+ economics by providing evidence which indicates that support for anti-LGBTQ+ educational bills is not widespread.

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Section: Literature Assessing Hb 1557mentioning

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Double List Analysis Assessing the Impact of Anti-Queer Legislation

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Conceptualising risk-taking in educational settings for enabling pedagogies of courage

Cooke

2024

Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

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Despite education discourses promoting risk-taking as a positive character trait, Australia has been identified as one of the most risk-averse countries in the developed world. This begs the question, why are Australians so risk averse? One reason may be a lack of common language and understanding about risk-taking, and an absence of risk-taking culture, in Australian educational settings. In this article, I continue an ongoing conversation about risk and risk-taking in educational contexts. I explore use of these terms in general education discourse and formal Australian education documents, revealing some positive inclusions and concerning silences. To help address the silences, I introduce the terms pedagogical risk-taking and pedagogies of courage. I propose these terms and their associated accounts as a framework for helping build a culture of risk-taking in educational settings – a shift that will help more Australian's embrace risk-taking for the benefit of individuals, the environment and society.

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Rising Authoritarian Practice in Early Childhood Curriculum: A Case Study

Michael-Luna,

Castner

2024

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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Amid the ideological shift from democratic neoliberalism to authoritarian neoliberalism, spearheaded by right-wing Christian nationalists, early childhood educational policy has become a weapon in the “culture war” in many parts of the United States. Neoliberalism has outgrown the constraints of democracy and is being supplanted with nihilistic views on science and knowledge and leaning toward authoritarianism. This is evidenced in a tidal wave of local and state-based educational policy, which restricts individual freedom of expression and access to knowledge while sabotaging government accountability and transparency. However, a practical approach is to observe how local authoritarianism, within the bounds of a recognized democracy, is lacking. The recent surge of early childhood educational policy in right-wing (historically conservative) states in the United States creates an opportunity to understand what values, norms, and knowledge are reified or restricted in the policies that govern early childhood curriculum policy and curriculum. Using a critical discourse analysis in a case study methodology, we shed light on authoritarian practices in early childhood curriculum policy and practice in Florida during the 2021–2024 legislative sessions. The case study examines the implications of educational reform policies for early childhood social studies curriculum to address two questions: How are dominant discourses in early childhood curriculum in Florida changing to reflect a shifting regime of truth? How are authoritarian practices used in Florida’s early childhood education policy system of curriculum evaluation and selection restricting knowledge, limiting critique, and reducing meaningful accountability of government policymakers and technocrats to policy stakeholders, including children, teachers, and parents?

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Removing the guardrails of democracy: Silencing critique of early childhood policy and practice

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

Double List Analysis Assessing the Impact of Anti-Queer Legislation

Double List Analysis Assessing the Impact of Anti-Queer Legislation

Conceptualising risk-taking in educational settings for enabling pedagogies of courage

Rising Authoritarian Practice in Early Childhood Curriculum: A Case Study

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