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COMPUGIRLS

Kimberly A. Scott
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African American girls
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coding programs
culturally relevant teaching
culturally responsive computing
culturally responsive teaching
digital divide
empowerment
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Girlhood studies
girlhoods of color
girls of color
Indigenous communities
intersectionality
Latinx girls
Native American girls
out-of-school programs
single-sex education
social responsibility
sociology of children and childhoods
sociology of education
teacher education
technosocial change agents
women in stem
women in technology

Product details

  • ISBN 9780252086137
  • Weight: 286g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Oct 2021
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description
What does is it mean for girls of color to become techno-social change agents--individuals who fuse technological savvy with a deep understanding of society in order to analyze and confront inequality?

Kimberly A. Scott explores this question and others as she details the National Science Foundation-funded enrichment project COMPUGIRLS. This groundbreaking initiative teaches tech skills to adolescent girls of color but, as importantly, offers a setting that emphasizes empowerment, community advancement, and self-discovery. Scott draws on her experience as an architect of COMPUGIRLS to detail the difficulties of translating participants' lives into a digital context while tracing how the program evolved. The dramatic stories of the participants show them blending newly developed technical and communication skills in ways designed to spark effective action and bring about important change.

A compelling merger of theory and storytelling, COMPUGIRLS provides a much-needed roadmap for understanding how girls of color can find and define their selves in today's digital age.
About Kimberly A. Scott
Kimberly A. Scott is a professor in the Women and Gender Studies Department at Arizona State University and the Founder/Executive Director of ASU's Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology. She is coauthor of Kids in Context: The Sociological Study of Children and Childhoods and coeditor of Women Education Scholars and their Children's Schooling.

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