Digital Personalization in Early Childhood

Impact on Childhood

Dr Natalia Kucirkova (University of Stavanger, Norway)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
21 March 2019

Educational psychology; Educational strategies & policy; Educational equipment & technology, computer-aided learning (CAL)

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

Digital personalization is an emerging interdisciplinary research field, with application to a variety of areas including design, education and publication industry. This book focuses on children’s education and literacy resources, which have undergone important changes with the ‘personalization revolution’ in the early 21st

century.

The author develops original insights from educational research and her own studies concerned with digital and non-digital personalization, to discuss in a clear and critical way the thinking, research issues and practical implications of this new field. She scrutinises the character of technology-based personalized education to substantiate the claim that the current models of personalized education tend to be technology- and business-driven, with little pedagogical understanding of the social value of personalization. Research involving touchscreens, personalized books and 2-8-year olds is interrogated for its impact on children’s development of language, creativity, identity, as well as family dynamics and classroom dialogue. The literature available on digital and non-digital personalization is discussed in relation to five key themes of personalized education, the so-called 5As: autonomy, authorship, aesthetics, attachment and authenticity. It is argued that the 5As need to be anchored in humanist principles for a sustainable pedagogy and practice. Based on the insights from research with typically and atypically developing children, Kucirkova proposes personalised pluralisation, as a pedagogical framework of personalized education for the future. The book aims to help scholars and professionals understand the connections between personalization and literacy, personalization and education, and personalization and wider socio-moral issues.

By: Dr Natalia Kucirkova (University of Stavanger Norway)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 322g
ISBN: 9781350105539
ISBN 10: 1350105538
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 21 March 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Understanding Digital Personalization 2. The Origin and Rise of Personalized Education 3. Technology-Enabled and Technology-Driven Personalized Education in the 21st Century 4. Overview of Personalized Books: Self-Made and Commercially Produced Personalized Books 5. Theoretical Frameworks Relevant for Digital Personalization in Early Education 6. The Five As of Personalization 7. Extant Research with Personalized Books 8. Personalization and Creativity 9. Personalization and Identity 10. Touchscreens and Personalized Education 11. Personalized Education: Pedagogical Possibilities 12. Personalized Pluralization References Index

Natalia Kucirkova is Senior Research Fellow at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK.

Reviews for Digital Personalization in Early Childhood: Impact on Childhood

Dr Kucirkova addresses important questions in relation to the significant tensions in current education, between promoting creativity and critical thinking, or promoting basic skills for everyday living and employment. She brings together her own research and experiences, together with the use of significant theoretical perspectives to suggest that personalised pluralism can be a solution. The way this innovative idea is developed is crucial reading for students, researchers and anyone interested in education and child development. * David Messer, Emeritus Professor of Education, The Open University, UK *