Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing
暫譯: 困在淺水區：教育、種族與計算機
Jane Margolis
- 出版商: MIT
- 出版日期: 2010-04-30
- 售價: $1,070
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,017
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 216
- 裝訂: Paperback
- ISBN: 0262514044
- ISBN-13: 9780262514040
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商品描述
Winner, Education category, 2008 PROSE Awards presented by the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers.
The number of African Americans and Latino/as receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees in computer science is disproportionately low, according to recent surveys. And relatively few African American and Latino/a high school students receive the kind of institutional encouragement, educational opportunities, and preparation needed for them to choose computer science as a field of study and profession. In Stuck in the Shallow End, Jane Margolis looks at the daily experiences of students and teachers in three Los Angeles public high schools: an overcrowded urban high school, a math and science magnet school, and a well-funded school in an affluent neighborhood. She finds an insidious "virtual segregation" that maintains inequality.
Two of the three schools studied offer only low-level, how-to (keyboarding, cutting and pasting) introductory computing classes. The third and wealthiest school offers advanced courses, but very few students of color enroll in them. The race gap in computer science, Margolis finds, is one example of the way students of color are denied a wide range of occupational and educational futures. Margolis traces the interplay of school structures (such factors as course offerings and student-to-counselor ratios) and belief systems—including teachers' assumptions about their students and students' assumptions about themselves. Stuck in the Shallow End is a story of how inequality is reproduced in America—and how students and teachers, given the necessary tools, can change the system.
The number of African Americans and Latino/as receiving undergraduate and advanced degrees in computer science is disproportionately low, according to recent surveys. And relatively few African American and Latino/a high school students receive the kind of institutional encouragement, educational opportunities, and preparation needed for them to choose computer science as a field of study and profession. In Stuck in the Shallow End, Jane Margolis looks at the daily experiences of students and teachers in three Los Angeles public high schools: an overcrowded urban high school, a math and science magnet school, and a well-funded school in an affluent neighborhood. She finds an insidious "virtual segregation" that maintains inequality.
Two of the three schools studied offer only low-level, how-to (keyboarding, cutting and pasting) introductory computing classes. The third and wealthiest school offers advanced courses, but very few students of color enroll in them. The race gap in computer science, Margolis finds, is one example of the way students of color are denied a wide range of occupational and educational futures. Margolis traces the interplay of school structures (such factors as course offerings and student-to-counselor ratios) and belief systems—including teachers' assumptions about their students and students' assumptions about themselves. Stuck in the Shallow End is a story of how inequality is reproduced in America—and how students and teachers, given the necessary tools, can change the system.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
2008年美國出版協會專業/學術出版部門頒發的PROSE獎教育類別獲獎者。
根據最近的調查，獲得計算機科學本科和研究生學位的非裔美國人和拉丁裔人數量不成比例地低。而且，相對較少的非裔美國人和拉丁裔高中生獲得選擇計算機科學作為學習和職業領域所需的機構鼓勵、教育機會和準備。在Stuck in the Shallow End中，Jane Margolis考察了洛杉磯三所公立高中的學生和教師的日常經歷：一所擁擠的城市高中、一所數學和科學特色學校，以及一所位於富裕社區的資金充足的學校。她發現了一種隱蔽的「虛擬隔離」，維持了不平等。
三所學校中有兩所僅提供低水平的入門計算機課程（如鍵盤輸入、剪切和粘貼）。第三所最富裕的學校提供高級課程，但很少有有色人種學生選擇報名。Margolis發現，計算機科學中的種族差距是有色人種學生被剝奪廣泛職業和教育未來的一個例子。Margolis追溯了學校結構（如課程提供和學生與輔導員比例等因素）和信念系統之間的相互作用，包括教師對學生的假設和學生對自己的假設。Stuck in the Shallow End講述了不平等在美國如何重現，以及學生和教師在獲得必要工具後，如何能夠改變這一系統。
