Guy Roberts?Holmes
The ‘datafication’ of early years pedagogy: ‘if the teaching is good, the data should be good and if there’s bad teaching, there is bad data’
University of London
abstractfollowing election conservativeliberal democrat uk coalition government 2010 urgent intensification focus upon early years numeracy literacy promoting systematic synthetic phonics paper argues current narrowing early years assessment along increased inspection surveillance operates policy technology leading intensification school readiness pressures upon earliest stage education paper suggests governance encouraged functional datafication early years pedagogy early years teachers work increasingly constrained performativity demands produce appropriate data article argues early years highstakes national assessments act metapolicy steering early years pedagogy distance power challenge disrupt constrain early years teachers deeply held childcentred pedagogical valueskeywords early years teachersdataficationpedagogyneoliberalassessment acknowledgementsthanks peter moss encouragement critique earlier versions article thanks dominic wyse initiating research alice bradbury sue rogers phil jones confirmation analysis thanks also anonymous referees journal helpful suggestions