Metric Fixation and The Datafication of Early Childhood Education and Care

In this online reading group Professor Guy Roberts-Holmes shares his recent work around the implications of measurement and datafication cultures in early childhood.

Guy is Professor of Early Childhood Education at University College London, IOE. His research publications focus on two principal themes:

• Use of an innovative Foucauldian analysis to critically investigate the relationship between neoliberalism’s central values of competition, calculation and choice and the construction of ‘quality’, ‘performativity’, ‘datafication’ and governance within Early Childhood Education (ECE). 
• Examination of Global Education Reform Movement’s (GERM) ‘market’ logic upon ECE teacher’s professional identities, pedagogy and children’s wellbeing.

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