Making Visible and Modeling the Underrepresented: Teachers' Reflections on Their Role Modeling in Higher Education

Grande, V., Kinnunen, P., Barr, M. , Cajander, Å., Daniels, M., Lewis, A. N., Sánchez-Peña, M. and Thota, N. (2022) Making Visible and Modeling the Underrepresented: Teachers' Reflections on Their Role Modeling in Higher Education. In: 27th ACM Conference on on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science, Dublin, Ireland, 8-13 July 2022, pp. 566-567. ISBN 9781450392006 (doi: 10.1145/3502717.3532170)

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Abstract

This work contributes to a better understanding of computing teachers' perceptions of themselves as role models. Role models are described as important to address under-representation, yet there is little in-depth research on how role modeling works and what university teachers in computing can model to broaden participation in the discipline. We will analyze teachers' reflections on how they may, or want to, be perceived by their students, particularly in terms of professional competencies, emotions and attitudes towards well-being. We will use and further develop an already existing framework on role modeling in computing, and we will relate our findings to existing research on computing and science identities. Modeling aspects outside the computing norm can help provide students with a wider notion of what it means to be a computer scientist. Besides developing the theoretical understanding of computing teachers as role models , our work can support various ways of developing computing teachers' competences and departments' teaching culture. The results are one way to contribute to student diversity and equitable access, and more broadly increase the relevance of computing education for sustainability.

Item Type:Conference Proceedings
Additional Information:This work is partially supported by National Science Foundation - Computer and Information Science and Engineering (NSE-CISE) award grant number: 2137928 and by the Center for Teaching and Learning at University of Massachusetts Amherst (SoTL Professional Development Award).
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Barr, Dr Matthew
Authors: Grande, V., Kinnunen, P., Barr, M., Cajander, Å., Daniels, M., Lewis, A. N., Sánchez-Peña, M., and Thota, N.
Subjects:L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
ISBN:9781450392006
Copyright Holders:© 2022 Copyright held by the owner/author(s)
First Published:First published in ITiCSE '22: Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Vol. 2: 566-567
Publisher Policy:Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy

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