Infrastructures of abstraction: how computer science education produces anti-political subjects

• Published in: Digital creativity (Exeter) Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 300 - 312
• Main Authors: Malazita, James W., Resetar, Korryn
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 02.10.2019
• Subjects: abstraction; Computer science education; critical pedagogy; epistemic infrastructures; feminist STS

Abstraction, defined in Computer Science (CS) as bracketing unnecessary information from diverse components within a system, serves as a central epistemological axis in CS disciplinary and pedagogical practices. Its impressions can be seen across curricula, syllabi, classroom structures, IT systems;...