Breaking the Code: Confronting Racism in Computer Science through Community, Criticality, and Citizenship

Autor/inn/en	Yadav, Aman; Heath, Marie K.
Titel	Breaking the Code: Confronting Racism in Computer Science through Community, Criticality, and Citizenship
Quelle	In: TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 66 (2022) 3, S.450-458 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Yadav, Aman)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	8756-3894
DOI	10.1007/s11528-022-00734-9
Schlagwörter	Racial Discrimination; Computer Science Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Social Justice; Citizenship Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Racial bias; Rassismus; Computer science lessons; Informatikunterricht; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung
Abstract	The unexamined power and prejudice embedded within technologies and societies has led to direct harm to individuals of color, minoritized groups, and the US ideal of a multi-racial democracy. Rather than an accident of AI or a "glitch" of the system, these inequities highlight the invisible and oppressive architecture -- a "New Jim Code" (Benjamin, 2019) -- encoded into the bones of the technology. At the same time, computer science education has grown considerably over the last decade. We ask "how can educators address embedded injustice within the K-12 CS education?" Using "information asymmetry" (Hippel, 2005) as a conceptual framing, we argue for the need to address racialized and patriarchal biases through curricular design and teaching in CS. We argue for a participatory and community centered approach to CS curricula which facilitates community co-designed CS, centers criticality, and fosters civic education within CS. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01