Human capital theory, developing children as future workers, shapes thinking about early childhood education policy around the globe. International contributors problematize this thinking and offer alternatives.

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Vina Adriany, Indonesia University of Education, Indonesia Alejandro Azocar, University of West Alabama-Livingston, USA Sabiha Bilgi, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Turkey Marianne Bloch, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Emma Buchanan, University of Melbourne, Australia Cary Buzzelli, Indiana University, USA Hong-Ju Jun, Paichai University, Korea Janice Kroeger, Kent State University, USA I-Fang Lee, University of Newcastle, Australia. Theodora Lightfoot Rueda, Interdisciplinary Institute for Research in the Social Sciences and Education, USA Zsuzsa Millei, University of Tampere, Finland Ruth Peach, National Louis University, USA Kurniawan Saefullah, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia Chao-Ling Tseng, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Joseph Zanoni, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

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PART I: THEORY AND HISTORY OF HUMAN CAPITAL 1. Introduction and Historical Perspective; Theodora Lightfoot-Rueda and Ruth Lynn Peach 2. Theorizing Dialogue Among Various Voices in Critical Theory; Joseph Zanoni PART II: DECONSTRUCTION AND CRITIQUE OF HUMAN CAPITAL AND EDUCATION 3. Governing the Brain: New Narratives of Human Capital in Australian Early Childhood Education; Zsuzsa Millei 4. The Instrumentality of Spanish in Early Spanish Education: Unraveling the Linguistic Masquerade; Alejandro Azocar 5. "Abilities-Machines": Human Capital Theory and Early Education by Sabiha Bilgi 6. Human Capital Theory and Shifting Perceptions of Teachers in the US; Theodora Lightfoot-Rueda 7. Reforming Early Childhood Education as a Smart Investment for the Future: Stories from East Asia; I-Fang Lee, Chao-Ling Tseng, and Hong-Ju Jun 8. England's Foundation Stage Child in a Shifting World: Troubling the Grids of Reasoning of 'Children with Potential,' 'Normalization' and 'Value-Added' Curriculum; Ruth Lynn Peach 9. Deconstructing Human Capital Discourse in Early Childhood Education in Indonesia; Vina Adriany and Kurniawan Saefullah PART III: RECONCEPTUALIZING EDUCATION OUTSIDE OF HUMAN CAPITAL LANGUAGE 10. And You Gotta Believe Me: When Social Capital and Human Capital Collide; Janice Kroeger 11. Questioning the Discourses of Human Capital in Early Childhood Education: Reconceptualizing Theory, Policy and Practice; Emma Buchanan 12. Expanding the Value of Early Education: The Capabilities Approach as an Alternative to Human Capital Theory; Cary Buzzelli 13. Concluding and Moving Forward; Theodora Lightfoot-Rueda and Ruth Lynn Peach