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Girl-Friendly Computer Science Classroom: Czechitas Experience Report

BÜHNOVÁ, Barbora and Lucia HAPPE

Basic information

Original name

Girl-Friendly Computer Science Classroom: Czechitas Experience Report

Authors

BÜHNOVÁ, Barbora (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Lucia HAPPE (703 Slovakia)

Edition

Neuveden, European Conference on Software Architecture, p. 125-137, 13 pp. 2020

Publisher

Springer

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

10200 1.2 Computer and information sciences

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

References:

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14330/20:00116877

Organization unit

Faculty of Informatics

ISBN

978-3-030-59154-0

ISSN

DOI

Keywords in English

Computer science education; Girls; Secondary grade; Learning environment; Czechitas

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 10/5/2021 06:10, RNDr. Pavel Šmerk, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

The under-representation of girls within software engineering has far-reaching consequences, from social to economical. For the moment, curriculum design is being widely discussed as the essential factor that teachers can adapt to influence their education’s inclusiveness. However, in building an inclusive learning environment, effective pedagogy is even more crucial, fostering controlled work with students’ strengths, weaknesses, interest in the topic, sense of belonging, and experience of success. In this paper, we collect effective strategies for building a girl-friendly classroom environment that is inclusive towards novice computer science learners, and we pair them with the practical experience from a successful education NGO called Czechitas, specialized in female-tailored computing courses.