Datafication of Primary and Early Years Education - Playing With Numbers

The Datafication of Primary and Early Years Education explores and critically analyses the growing dominance of data in schools and early childhood education settings. This important book explores the role and impact of digital data in the 'data-obsessed' school.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: the state, data and primary education
Chapter 2: Theorising and researching data in education
Chapter 3: Datafication in the classroom: The production of data-driven subjectivities
Chapter 4: Data, reductionism and the problems of assessing young children
Chapter 5: Schools' responses to datafication and the visibility of performance
Chapter 6: International datafication and business opportunities
Chapter 7: Datafied learner identities: Towards an understanding of the future of data in education
References

About the author

Alice Bradbury is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education, Practice and Society at the UCL Institute of Education, UK.
Guy Roberts-Holmes is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Learning and Leadership at the UCL Institute of Education, UK.

Summary

The Datafication of Primary and Early Years Education explores and critically analyses the growing dominance of data in schools and early childhood education settings. This important book explores the role and impact of digital data in the ‘data-obsessed’ school.

Product details

• Authors: Alice Bradbury, Alice (Ucl Institute of Education Bradbury, Bradbury Alice, Guy Roberts-Holmes, Roberts-Holmes Guy
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.10.2017
• EAN: 9781138242159
• ISBN: 978-1-138-24215-9
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Foundations and Futures of Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Kindergarten and pre-school education; EDUCATION / General, Moral and social purpose of education, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Primary & middle schools, Pre-school & kindergarten, Pre-school and kindergarten, Moral & social purpose of education, Primary and middle schools