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Broadening participation in computing: issues and challenges

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Lisa L. Harlow,

David A. Stuart,

Barbara Silver,

Peter D. StephensonAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 39, Issue 3

Pages 9 - 13

https://doi.org/10.1145/1269900.1268790

Published: 25 June 2007 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we survey the literature to identify the issues and challenges of broadening participation in computer science, and provide some suggestions to address these challenges. Our attention focuses on redefining the way we approach computing education so that we can successfully entice students to computing that have not traditionally participated, thereby promoting diversity and increasing the total numbers of computing professionals. Based on the literature review, we propose an interactional model from the social sciences to inform the way in which we might restructure and broaden the definition of computing and provide some examples of strategies that we have found to be successful in practice.

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Broadening participation in computing: issues and challenges
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 39, Issue 3

Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE'07)

September 2007

366 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1269900

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ITiCSE '07: Proceedings of the 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
June 2007
386 pages
ISBN:9781595936103
DOI:10.1145/1268784
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University of Dundee, UK
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University of Dundee, UK
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Rochester Institute of Technology

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