Disrupting and countering deficits in early childhood education / edited by Fikile Nxumalo and Christopher P. Brown.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introducing the text and examining the emergence, maintenance, and expansion of gaps, deficits, and risks through early childhood policy -- Dismantling racialized discourses in early childhood education and care: a revolution towards reframing the field -- Platicas on disrupting language ideologies in the borderlands -- Rejecting deficit views of Children in poverty in favor of a philosophy of abundance -- A capability-oriented lens: reframing the early years education of children with disabilities -- Fighting for the unity of care and education in early childhood: understanding and disrupting challenges to professional knowledge and action -- Disrupting standardized early education through culturally sustaining pedagogies with young children -- Deconstructing child rights in special educational needs: representations of deficit and development in educational psychology -- More-than-human kinship relations within indigenous children's picture books -- Listening to and telling a rush of unruly natureculture gender stories -- Disrupting racial capitalist formations in early childhood education.