Centering Deep Care Among Newcomer Siblings-of-Color: Countering Hegemonic Frames of Doing Gender in Computing Education (Poster 24)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Sunday 8:00 a.m.
  In Poster Session: Computational Thinking and Learning

Abstract

We illuminate the care ethics that newcomer siblings of color engage in while co-designing computational models that re-imagines and counters white colonist and masculine ideological basis of a canonical computational model. We argue that their care for each other which is embedded in their micro-interactions is rooted in their histories of migration and thus are essential to their disciplinary engagement in computing. We also show how their care can be understood through Southern phenomenological anti-caste and feminist frameworks that espouse countering the hegemonic gaze in institutional spaces through upholding the subjectivities of marginalized people in spaces of STEM and computing education.

Authors

• Megha Sanyal, University of Calgary

• Pallavi Banerjee, University of Calgary

• Pratim Sengupta, University of Calgary