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Sukanya Kannan Moudgalya; Michael Lachney; Aman Yadav; Madison Allen Kuyenga – Computer Science Education, 2025
Background and Context: Recent research suggests that there is work to be done in overcoming color-evasive ideologies in Computer Science (CS) education. In particular, we have limited insight into how to support white teachers in using Culturally Responsive Computing (CRC) approaches. This paper addresses this gap in the literature by analyzing…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Diversity, Computer Science Education, High School Teachers
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Kolikant, Yifat Ben-David; Ben-Ari, Mordechai – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2008
We explain certain learning difficulties in computer science education as resulting from a clash between the students' culture as computer users and the professional computing culture. We propose the concept of fertile zones of cultural encounter as a way of overcoming these learning difficulties. This pedagogical approach aims to bridge the gap…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Learning Problems, Cultural Differences, Computer Uses in Education
Trotter, Andrew – Education Week, 2008
U.S. students spend too little time and effort on academics in high school, compared with harder-working young people in China and India, according to a new documentary being shown to "thought leaders" in states holding presidential primaries this winter. The documentary, conceived and financed by high-tech entrepreneur Robert A.…
Descriptors: High Schools, High School Seniors, Cultural Differences, Time Factors (Learning)