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- Berglund, Anders, 1956-, et al.
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Computer Science Education in Europe
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Ingår i: SIGCSE Bulletin. - : ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education. ; , s. 395-396
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- Berglund, Anders, 1956-
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Exploring the cultures : European values in science and technology education in higher education
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Ingår i: Cultural Dynamics: Inheritance and Identity.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Universities are a part of the globalisation. They belong to the local community in which they are situated,at the same time as they are heavily influenced by the cultural and social background of teachers andstudents and as they carry a culture of their own. Each subject area in science and technology, such ascomputer science or biology, also brings its own sets of values and norms. What it means, for example “tobe a computer scientist” and “what computer science is” are thus evolving in the interplay between thesubject area, the university and its people, the local community and an internationalising world.It is hard to enter this culture for a student, who enters university to study science or technology. Maybethe difficulty is still larger for non-European students, who bring other norms and experiences than themajority culture. For example, Asian students tend, more than their European counterparts, to focus onrote learning. Although learning in this form often is highly sophisticated and successful, Europeanuniversities normally do not support these ways of learning. The Asian students frequently alsounderstand concepts, which are taken for granted in a European community (such as originality andintellectual property) in different ways. In science and technology, the students’ relationships to the roleof the literature and purpose of practical assignments often differ from that of the majority culture.In this context it becomes interesting to explore how the diversity in itself is understood by students andstaff. The issue of how the different subject areas stand out, which values, norms and cultures that theyinteract with and are constituted by becomes another important research question.The diverse environments that is constituted by science and technology education at the universities offerpossibilities for the researchers to explore the variation in the above mentioned factors, in a way thatwould not possible in a culturally homogenous environment.The rationale for studying such topics in this cultural environment is three-fold:1. The study opens for scrutinizing our own, European, values. By making our values explicit, wecan determine which of these values that we honour and find important. For example, originality,intellectual property and equality are important European values, while the unwillingness torespect rote learning is not. Thus, universities need to communicate with their students in order tomake our values visible and understandable. Further we need to accommodate those behavioursthat are not fundamental in a European perspective in the repertoires of the universities.2. The study also opens for integrating new practices into the universities, both as institutionallychanges and by acting in such a way that the universities profit from the diversity in theuniversities.3. Finally, this research program offers the kind of insights concerning our culture, which haspedagogical implications. It can ultimately help us in improving science and technologyeducation.The study will take its empirical basis in a qualitative exploration of the expressions of the experiences ofstudents and staff from different subject areas. The outcome of this study will be interpreted in culturaltheory and/or socio-cultural frameworks.My personal research interests lies in the interaction between the subject area (specifically computerscience) with the culture of which it is a part. The implications in science and technology education andits pedagogy are questions that I find particularly relevant and appealing to explore.
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- Berglund, Anders, et al.
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Pedagogical development in engineering : A collaborative project between Saudi Arabia and Sweden
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Ingår i: Proc. World Engineering Education Forum. ; , s. 967-968
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper discusses a pedagogical development project (called ABoLT – Al Baha optimizing Learning and Teaching) in engineering and computer science at Al Baha University (ABU) in Saudi Arabia. It is jointly run between ABU and the Uppsala Computing Education Research Group (UpCERG), Uppsala University (UU) in Sweden, as a mutual learning project. It is based in research in learning in engineering and computing education research. In the project we develop intellectual tools aimed to empower the teachers at ABU, and thereby their faculty and the university as a whole.
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- Berglund, Anders, 1956-, et al.
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Students learn CS in different ways : Insights from an empirical study
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Ingår i: SIGCSE Bulletin inroads. - : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 0097-8418. ; 38:3, s. 265-269
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This empirical study demonstrates that students’ learning of computer science takes place in qualitatively different ways. The results consists of categories, where each category describe a certain way, in which the students approach their learning. The paper demonstrates that some of the ways to tackle the learning are better than others in resulting in a good learning outcome, and that they therefore should be encouraged. The data, underlying these results, are collected through interviews with third and fourth year students in two countries, and are further analyzed, using a phenomenographic research approach.
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