Digital Personalization in Early Childhood - Impact on Childhood

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