River Crossings of Our Childhood: Nezuko and Yasmine Dis/Orient Computing Education

• In Event: Sunday Roundtable Session 11:25 am
  In Roundtable Session: Centering Affective, Accessible, and Inclusive Perspectives in the Learning Sciences (Table 7)

Abstract

We present the work of two immigrant youth of color, Nezuko and Yasmine, who re-design and reimagine an existing computational model that is entrenched in colonial ideologies. We adopt a grounded theoretical method and conduct a constant comparative analysis of the computational artifacts co-designed with the participants and the conversations between the participants and the facilitators. Our analysis identifies ethical-affective design turns in their interactions that led to crucial reorientations to the existing code and interface of the computational model. These reorientations offer a contrapuntal imagination of designing and theorising of techno-scientific learning spaces.

Authors

• Megha Sanyal, University of Calgary

• Basak Helvaci Ozacar, University of Calgary

• Santanu Dutta, University of Calgary

• Pallavi Banerjee, University of Calgary

• Pratim Sengupta, University of Calgary