Disrupting and Countering Deficits in Early Childhood Education

Fikile Nxumalo is Assistant Professor of Diversity and Place in Teaching and Teacher Education in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, at the Ontario Institute for Studies of Education, University of Toronto.Christopher P. Brown is Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a Faculty Fellow with The Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis and at the Center for Health and Social Policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. He is also the Past-Chair for the Early Education/Child Development Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association.