%0 Journal Article
%T Neoliberalism, neoconservativism, and globalisation: The OECD and new images of what is ¡®best¡¯ in early childhood education
%A Andrea Delaune
%J Policy Futures in Education
%@ 1478-2103
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1478210318822182
%X This paper analyses the International Early Learning and Child Well-Being Study, undertaken by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in order to draw attention to the neoliberal, neoconservative, and globalising discourses which underpin the study and generate an image of what is ¡®best¡¯ in early childhood education. The theories of Michel Foucault frame the analysis, illuminating the International Early Learning and Child Well-Being Study as a technology of governance which elicits new relationships of power between teachers, children, families, governments and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and offering ways of conceiving power/knowledge relationships as productive and therefore hopeful for those who seek to resist dominant paradigms
%K Foucault
%K early childhood education
%K IELS
%K OECD
%K neoliberal
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1478210318822182