8 articles in this issue
Sherry Marx,Yanghee Kim
In this Introduction to the IJME Special Issue on Technology for Equity and Social Justice in Education, Sherry Marx and Yanghee Kim highlight key trends in technology education research that address issues of equity and multicultural educatio... see more
Outi Kaarina Laiti,Satu-Maarit Frangou
This article addresses how, in the Arctic regions, indigenous traditional educational approaches focus on the cultural background of the people and their social learning customs in today’s context. The development of Arctic pedagogical approaches is discu... see more
Mia S Shaw,Deborah A Fields,Yasmin B Kafai
The development of student identities—their interests in computer science, perceptions of the discipline, and sense of belonging in the field—is critical for broadening participation of underrepresented groups in computing. This paper reports on the desig... see more
Kristin Searle,Colby Tofel-Grehl,Janet Breitenstein
This paper examines how working with sewable, programmable electronics embedded in textiles (e-textiles) impacted the self-perceptions and actions of two middle school girls from non-dominant communities as they navigated their place within science class.... see more
Manal Yazbak Abu Ahmad,Elaine Hoter
This study examines students in an online, collaborative, yearlong intercollege course. Arab and Jewish students from five colleges of education in Israel worked in virtual teams. The data includes pre and post questionnaires as well as open ended questio... see more
Baburhan Uzum,Bedrettin Yazan,Netta Avineri,Sedat Akayoglu
The study reports on a telecollaboration exchange between two teacher education classes in the United States and Turkey. In synchronous and asynchronous conversations, preservice teachers (PTs) engaged in social justice issues and made discourse choices t... see more
Candance Doerr-Stevens,Molly Buckley-Marudas
Drawing on multimodal, sound-based data, this study examines how high school students harnessed elements of sound and music for multicultural learning within collaborative research and radio podcasting. Data were collected from a variety of sources, inclu... see more
Jessica Morales-Chicas,Mauricio Castillo,Ireri Bernal,Paloma Ramos,Bianca Guzman
The purpose of the present review was to identify culturally responsive education (CRE) tools and strategies within K-12 computing education. A systematic literature review of studies on CRE across 20 years was conducted. A narrative synthesis was applied... see more