Community-oriented pedagogy for in-service CS teacher training

Yifat Ben David Kolikant*, Sarah Pollack

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this paper, we examine CS teachers from the aspect of their membership within a community of practice. We show that there is much interaction among the teachers; however, this interaction is merely for exchanging classroom materials and rarely involves a thorough analysis or the design of meaningful pedagogy. Consequently we present, with examples, a community-oriented pedagogical approach for re-designing the interaction to include thorough discussions utilizing a bird's-eye view of the discipline of CS as well as theories of learning in the context of in-class practice. We show that teachers who participated in a course, which was designed according to community-oriented pedagogy, recognized the power of belonging to a community and consequently changed their self-perception of being merely knowledge consumers to being collaborative knowledge producers as well.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages191-195
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)1581138369, 9781581138368
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004
EventProceedings of the 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education - Leeds, United Kingdom
Duration: 28 Jun 200430 Jun 2004

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of the 9th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLeeds
Period28/06/0430/06/04

Keywords

  • Community of practice
  • Community-oriented pedagogy
  • In-service teacher training
  • Interaction

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