Ancestral Knowledge Meets Computer Science Education

This book illustrates a pathway for knowledge production to benefit from interweaving the seemingly disparate historical experiences of Indigenous Peoples and computer science education. The resulting practice of ancestral computing for sustainability holds the power to mitigate the destructive forces of the field, while extending the potential of traditionally underserved and unheard populations. Reimagining the field of computer science, interwoven with traditional lifeways, presents compelling new discoveries in research and harnesses the rich tapestries that are Indigenous populations. Returning healthy lifeways to a center stage long-occupied by tightly controlled, Eurocentric learning methods opens worlds of opportunity that have felt lost to time.

Autorentext

Cueponcaxochitl D. Moreno Sandoval is Assistant Professor for Indigenous Studies at Stanislaus State University, USA. She teaches classes that nurture the preservation and revitalization of Indigenous theories, knowledges, and artivisms. Her research focuses on creating approaches that interweave Indigenous epistemologies and computer science to increase global sustainability.

Inhalt

1. Uprooting Systems of Colonization2. Returning to Ourselves3. Challenging Eurocentric Epistemologies4. Critical Self-Consciousness for Collective Action in Social Commonplace: Building a Sustainable Environment for Planting Seeds of Hope, 2009-20105. Cultivating Computing as Activism: Historicizing Cultural Identities as Academic Practices, 2010-20116. Spreading Seeds of Hope from Student-Led Initiatives to Classroom Practices para el Vivir Comunitario, 2011-2012