Review

The Datafication of Primary and Early Years Education

By Alice Bradbury and Guy Roberts-Holmes (Foundations and Futures of Education)

A critical analysis of the growing dominance of data in schools and early childhood education settings. Covers the impact of data on the individual practitioner, particularly in play-based early years classrooms, the problems of collecting data through assessment of young children, how schools respond to increased pressure to produce the ‘right’ data – or how they ‘play with numbers’ – and private sector involvement in data processing and analysis.

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