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Computer science education for social good

Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education, 2013
Computation and algorithmic thinking have become essential components for solving problems in many different fields. As such, computer scientists are intimately involved in finding solutions to some of the most pressing social, economic, and scientific problems of our day.
Michael Goldweber, John Barr 0001, Elizabeth Ann Patitsas   +2 more
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Social science education as a component of medical training

Social Science & Medicine, 1994
The broad view of health espoused by the World Health Organization is now generally accepted by medical educators. Implicit in the new paradigm is a recognition of multiple determinants of health and of shifting divisions of professional responsibilities among providers.
S M, MacLeod, H N, McCullough
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Computer science education for social good

ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society, 2015
Mathematics was once dubbed by Carl Gauss the "Queen of the Sciences." Given how pervasive computing has become, what should we say about it? In 2001, a New York Times column declared that "All Science is Computer Science"[7]. Since that time, computing has made tremendous inroads in the Humanities as well.
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Computer science education and social relevance

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 1971
The rise of computer science as a theoretical discipline should not be allowed to proceed without promoting the study of the social implications and applications of the field. This paper describes an undergraduate course whose primary goal is to foster an understanding of how computers can be used for socially relevant purposes.
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Social factors in science education

Instructional Science, 1980
A review of the major factors relevant to learning seience, suggests certain elasses of social variables that should be studied. A number of social experiments are suggested, which may result in improved achievement in science, among the nation's high school students. A science education policy is suggested by this analysis.
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A social construction approach to computer science education

Computer Science Education, 2007
Computer science education research has mostly focused on cognitive approaches to learning. Cognitive approaches to understanding learning do not account for all the phenomena observed in teaching and learning. A number of apparently successful educational approaches, such as peer assessment, apprentice-based learning and action learning, have aspects ...
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Social Science: Education as Social Persuasion

1983
The theme of this paper is that there has been a widespread change of mind about the role of values in the study of society, but that the change has not had much of the effect it ought to have had on the curriculum and teaching of the social sciences.
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On Improving Social Science Education in Pakistan [PDF]

, 2008
How do we arrest the decline of the social sciences in Pakistan? Is it a matter of money or one of sending more students to the West who might then return to teaching at the local universities? In this article I argue that the solution lies elsewhere.
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Science education: for citizenship and/or for social justice?

Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2005
In the recent literature on reforms in teaching science, a question has been frequently asked about the changes needed in teaching and learning science to ensure that ‘all’ children become ‘scienti...
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Historical Generalization and Social Science Education

The Social Studies, 1975
(1975). Historical Generalization and Social Science Education. The Social Studies: Vol. 66, No. 5, pp. 214-217.
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