Ancestral Knowledge Meets Computer Science Education: Environmental Change in Community

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This book illustrates a pathway for knowledge production to benefit from interweaving the seemingly disparate historical experiences of Indigenous Peoples and computer science education. The resulting practice of ancestral computing for sustainability holds the power to mitigate the destructive forces of the field, while extending the potential of traditionally underserved and unheard populations. Reimagining the field of computer science, interwoven with traditional lifeways, presents compelling new discoveries in research and harnesses the rich tapestries that are Indigenous populations. Returning healthy lifeways to a center stage long-occupied by tightly controlled, Eurocentric learning methods opens worlds of opportunity that have felt lost to time. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Uprooting Systems of Colonization: Naming Learning Ecologies as Eurocentric (Cueponcaxochitl D. Moreno Sandoval)....Pages 1-22 Internalized Colonization, Unearthed: Student Activism for Social Change (Cueponcaxochitl D. Moreno Sandoval)....Pages 23-60 Planting Seeds of Hope: Teacher Collaboration to Support Student Inquiry (Cueponcaxochitl D. Moreno Sandoval)....Pages 61-86 Critical Self-Consciousness for Collective Action in Social Commonplace: Building a Sustainable Environment for Planting Seeds of Hope, 2009–2010 (Cueponcaxochitl D. Moreno Sandoval)....Pages 87-124 Cultivating Computing as Activism: Historicizing Cultural Identities as Academic Practices, 2010–2011 (Cueponcaxochitl D Moreno Sandoval)....Pages 125-153 Spreading Seeds of Hope from Student-Led Initiatives to Classroom Practices para el Vivir Comunitario, 2011–2012 (Cueponcaxochitl D Moreno Sandoval)....Pages 155-166 Back Matter ....Pages 167-178