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COMPUTING AT SCHOOL: AN EMERGENT COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE FOR A RE-EMERGENT SUBJECT Pete Bradshaw, The Open University and John Woollard, University of Southampton, United Kingdom The Computing at School (CAS)
working group was formed in 2009 as a grassroots organisation with
members drawn from schools, higher education and the computing
industry. Their concern was the drop in applications for
undergraduate computing courses and a dearth of specialists entering
related professions. This paper studies the development of the
organisation with respect to models of communities of practice. The
methodology is a retrospective reflexive study based analysis of
e-mail transactions to review the association’s activities and
relationships with other stakeholders in computing education.
Through this, the formation of a new professional community of
practice is tracked and its characteristics established. |
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