Defensive climate in the computer science classroom Journal Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • As part of an NSF-funded IT Workforce grant, the authors conducted ethnographic research to provide deep understanding of the learning environment of computer science classrooms. Categories emerging from data analysis included 1) impersonal environment and guarded behavior; and 2) the creation and maintenance of informal hierarchy resulting in competitive behaviors. These communication patterns lead to a defensive climate, characterized by competitiveness rather cooperation, judgments about others, superiority, and neutrality rather than empathy. The authors identify particular and recognizable types of discourse, which, when prevalent in a classroom, can preclude the development of a collaborative and supportive learning environment.

publication date

  • March 1, 2002

has restriction

  • bronze

Date in CU Experts

  • December 7, 2021 3:46 AM

Full Author List

  • Barker LJ; Garvin-Doxas K; Jackson M

author count

  • 3

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International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0097-8418

Additional Document Info

start page

  • 43

end page

  • 47

volume

  • 34

issue

  • 1