Teaching with Hidden Capital: Agency in Children's Computational Explorations of Cornrow Hairstyles
Teaching with Hidden Capital: Agency in Children's Computational Explorations of Cornrow Hairstyles
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隐藏资本教学：儿童玉米辫发型计算探索的代理
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2023
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A. Bennett
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R. Eglash;A. Bennett
摘要：Bourdieu and Passeron（1973）将文化资本定义为赋予权力和地位的累积文化知识。这个概念包括“计算资本” - 促进计算活动，教育和职业的概念，技能和其他资源。我们指出，在灾难群体的某些文化实践中可以找到隐藏的计算资本来源，并且在这里提出的研究中，合适的学习环境可以使其资本可用。环境基于Cornrow Curves，这是一个允许儿童使用数学和计算原理来模拟这些桥梁的模式的小程序。非洲裔美国儿童与玉米曲曲线的互动，尤其是他们对他们的遗产身份之间的关系以及通过文化资源学习数学和计算的经验之间的关系。学生在这种计算几何形状中的创造性探索与他们的文化结构融合在一起。
Abstract:Bourdieu and Passeron (1973) famously defined cultural capital as the accumulated cultural knowledge that confers power and status. Their original work explained many of the intangible advantages that allowed the upper class to obtain better status jobs, education, etc. Here we extend this concept to include “computational capital”—the concepts, skills, and other resources that facilitate participation in computing activities, education and careers. We posit that hidden sources of computational capital can be found in some cultural practices of disadvantaged groups, and that a suitable learning environment can make this capital available to its owners. In the study presented here, the cultural practice is cornrow hairstyles, and the learning environment is based on Cornrow Curves, a web applet that allows children to use math and computing principles to simulate the patterns of these braids. This paper analyzes the interactions of African-American children with Cornrow Curves, in particular their reflections on the relationship between their heritage identity and the experience of learning math and computing through cultural resources. We use Bennett's (2008) concept of “design agency” to describe the ways in which the students' creative explorations in this computational geometry converge with their cultural construction of the self.