The sharp criticality and the weaving of technical and social that had become characteristic throughout the rest of the book were not as clear in this last section.
Currently, the integration chapters of the book (Chapters 20-24) are quite ambitious. They provide extensive reviews of contact points between computing and other disciplines, as well as summaries of the existing research literature on strategies and curricula for integrating computing across disciplines. On one hand, these chapters offer useful resources and flexible entry points for computing. On the other, the chapters felt at times unwieldy, and it wasn’t always clear to us what the takeaways were. The sharp criticality and the weaving of technical and social that had become characteristic throughout the rest of the book were not as clear in this last section. Some of the examples provided (and omitted) demonstrate this. Relevant and growing school subjects such as Ethnic Studies were missing from the discussion of social sciences; examples of art and literature focused mainly on “classics” (Jackson Pollack; Star Trek) when other imminently relevant examples (Vera Molnár; Afrofuturism) may have better served the text. Perhaps a more narrow focus on critical examples and pedagogical approaches to these topics across these chapters could have more appropriately scoped this work. Despite these issues, we do imagine these chapters as they are currently written could serve as a great resource - for literature, and for ideas - at large.
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