A Thematic Literature Review of Decolonization and Abolitionist Approaches in Computing Education
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Abstract
This scoping review explores the role of critical and culturally responsive pedagogy in addressing the significant gap in computer science (CS) education. Despite ongoing efforts to increase diversity, many groups, including women, remain underrepresented in CS. The research draws on Paulo Freire's foundational ideas on critical pedagogy, advocating for a dynamic and ethical approach to teaching that fosters critical thinking and community involvement. The review also examines various interventions in literature which incorporate critical, decolonial, and abolitionist pedagogies in CS education. Addressing both the technical and social dimensions of computing, educators can equip students with the tools needed to challenge and transform existing power structures, contributing to a more just and equitable society.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it