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Expansive Framings of “Capacity Building” in Computing Education: Agency, Infrastructuring, and Advocacy

Sat, April 13, 11:25am to 12:55pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 115B

Session Type: Structured Poster Session

Abstract

As movements to expand computing education have grown, questions of how to create supportive conditions towards this goal are often framed under the banner of “capacity building.” “Capacity building” can too easily be construed as an oversimplified equation of “teachers + skills/knowledge = student learning.” This model, however, elides broader complexities of not just policy and practice, but of varied goals and values. As the field of computing education has matured, sophisticated capacity building models must take more holistic, equitable and ecosystemic perspectives. This session explores such expansive framings of capacity building within computing education, considering varied sites of practice, embedded infrastructures, networks, and partnerships that are implicated, and the diverse needs and goals that it can address.

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