Work in Progress Seminar
Gender and the making of Computer Scientists in Singapore
Samantha Breslin
13th March 2014, 6pm
First Floor Common Lounge
Register at tembusu.nus.edu.sg
As students we are trained in particular skills, values, and behaviors. University computer science programs such as the one at NUS aim to train students in logical reasoning, computer programming, design analysis of computing algorithms, and professional ethics. How do students experience this learning process? To what extent is this learning “successful,” by what measure, and with what goal? And how is gender a part of this process? Based on my ongoing ethnographic research on computing at NUS and in Singapore more generally, I will explore the values, menaings, and significances students and educators attribute to learning computer science. I will also discuss how gender is made is made both relevant and irrelevant to different facets of learning and teaching computer science.
Samantha Breslin, PhD candidate
Department of Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Research attachment, Department of Sociology, NUS
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