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Computational empowerment: participatory design in education
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We propose computational empowerment as an approach and a Participatory Design (PD) response to challenges related to the emerging need for digital literacy in lower secondary education. Our approach extends the current focus on computational thinking to include a concern for how children and youth are empowered through constructive, analytical and critical engagement with technology. We argue that PD has the potential to drive a computational empowerment agenda in education by connecting political PD with contemporary visions for addressing a future digitised labour market and society. We provide a model for understanding and engaging with computational empowerment and report on the emergence of the computational empowerment agenda in a Danish context and how this agenda is reflected in the newly developed curriculum for a course on technology comprehension running on trial basis in 46 schools across Denmark.
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Participation on equal footing and recognition of lived experience as expertise foster empowerment and agency.
“Our findings support the view that participation on equal footing and recognition of lived experience as expertise foster empowerment and agency [2, 9, 12].”
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Child as Protagonist: Expanding the Role of Children in Participatory Design
Iversen, O. S., Smith, R. C., & Dindler, C. (2017) · Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children · doi:10.1145/3078072.3079725 · Cited by 333 · cited 2×
“Further, values and PD ’ s political commitments have been developed in the context of engaging with children (e.g. Iversen, Smith, and Dindler 2017).”
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Teaching Participatory Inclusive IT Design with a Neurodiversity Lens in Computing Education
Hermann, J., Jansen, N., Richter, U., Fleer, A., & Doganün, A. (2025) · Proceedings of the 25th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research · doi:10.1145/3769994.3770007 · Cited by 1
“Participatory methods and co-design are considered key for breaking down structural barriers and fostering genuine participation, empowerment, and self-efficacy of neurodivergent people in computing education [2, 9, 12, 33].”
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- Authors
- Dindler, C., Smith, R., & Iversen, O. S.
- Affiliations
- Aarhus University (DK)
- Corresponding author
- Dindler, Christian
- Venue
- CoDesign
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2020-01-02
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 66-80
- ISSN
- 1571-0882 (ISSN-L)
- 1745-3755
- OpenAlex
- W2994804642
- Cited by
- 182
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 42 · 2025: 31 · 2024: 35 · 2023: 29 · 2022: 24 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 16.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- CoDesign (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Teaching and Learning Programming
- Social Sciences › Education › Digital Education and Society
- Social Sciences › Education › Literacy, Media, and Education
- Keywords
- participatory design, digital literacy, computational thinking, lower secondary education, political design, youth empowerment, technology education
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