The book explores the potential of the Capability Approach as an alternative critical lens to early childhood education curricula. It investigates pre-primary teachers’ beliefs and practices and discusses issues that are likely to be confined and to provoke reflections to several national 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.

Contents: Early childhood education – Curriculum – Capability Approach – Teachers’ Beliefs.