We Tell These Stories to Survive: Towards Abolition in Computer Science Education
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Computer science (CS) education finds itself at a pivotal moment to reckon with what it means accept, use, and create technologies, the continued recruitment of minoritized students into field. In this paper, we build on oral traditions educating stories, take reader two journeys. We begin story that leads us in thinking about where computer is, wake slavery, under New Jim Code. Within BlackCrit framework, shake grounds field, technologies are often promoted as objective, but reflect reproduce existing inequalities. tune maintaining current systems power, efforts broaden participation have been heavily driven by industry, government, military interests. These interests ultimately push farther away from sustainable relations earth each other, risk very lives same communities field claims help. However, can rewrite narratives role technology our lives. present second which place abolitionist theories practices conversation education. paper explore (1) ways does computing support enable Black death? (2) How might integrating an framework open up possibilities for world-building dreaming name Life? imagine different future is used tool life-affirming, projects. invite readers engage piece part active dialogue towards combating anti-Black logics
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1942-4051', '1492-6156', '1492-4051']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42330-021-00158-2