The Datafication of Education

This book attends to the transformation of processes and practices in education, relating to its increasing digitisation and datafication. The chapters in this book were originally published in Learning, Media and Technology.

Autorentext

Juliane Jarke is a Senior Researcher at the University of Bremen, Germany. Her research focuses on public sector innovation, digital (in-)equalities and participatory design.

Andreas Breiter is a Professor at the University of Bremen, Germany, and Scientific Director of the Institute for Information Management Bremen (ifib), working on information management, educational technologies and media/data literacies.

Inhalt

Introduction: the datacation of education 1. Datafied at four: the role of data in the 'schoolification' of early childhood education in England 2. Configuring the teacher as data user: public-private sector mediations of national test data 3. The datafication of discipline: ClassDojo, surveillance and a performative classroom culture 4. The social value of anonymity on campus: a study of the decline of Yik Yak 5. Reconsidering data in learning analytics: opportunities for critical research using a documentation studies framework 6. Objectivity as standardization in data-scientific education policy, technology and governance 7. Datafication, testing events and the outside of thought 8. Cruel optimism in edtech: when the digital data practices of educational technology providers inadvertently hinder educational equity