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Computing at School in Sweden - Experiences from Introducing Computer Science within Existing Subjects

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Author

  • Fredrik Heintz
  • Linda Mannila
  • Karin Nygårds
  • Parnes Parnes
  • Björn Regnell

Editor

  • Andrzej Brodnik
  • Jan Vahrenhold

Summary, in English

Computing is no longer considered a subject area only relevant for a narrow group of professionals, but rather as a vital part of general education that should be available to all children and youth. Since making changes to national curricula takes time, people are trying to find other ways of introducing children and youth to computing. In Sweden, several current initiatives by researchers and teachers aim at finding ways of working with computing within the current curriculum. In this paper we present case studies based on a selection of these initiatives from four major regions in Sweden and based on these case studies we present our ideas for how to move forward on introducing computational thinking on a larger scale in Swedish education.

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Pages

118-130

Publication/Series

Informatics in Schools. Curricula, Competences, and Competitions /Lecture Notes in Computer Science and General Issues

Volume

9378

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Didactics
  • Software Engineering
  • Computer Science

Keywords

  • computer science
  • software engineering
  • engineering education
  • engineering didactic
  • computing in school

Conference name

8th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives

Conference date

2015-09-28 - 2015-10-01

Conference place

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1611-3349
  • ISSN: 0302-9743
  • ISBN: 978-3-319-25395-4