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Computing Education Research in the Global South

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Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research

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Scientometric analyses of publication data from all major computing education research (CER) outlets show that many countries and whole continents are greatly underrepresented on the global map of contributions to CER. For example, only a minor portion of CER has originated from countries in the Global South (GS) or has addressed challenges of computing education in the GS. In this chapter, we shift the focus to scientometrically analyse CER papers that originate from countries in the GS. From the metadata of all CER publications in central publication outlets of CER, we have selected a subset of articles with authors affiliated to an institution in a GS Country, as defined by the United Nations (UN). The analysis shows publication trends, prolific authors, and country collaboration patterns. A number of crucial and interesting avenues for future research and collaboration are presented.

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    Friday Joseph Agbo

  2. Willamette University, Salem, OR, USA

    Friday Joseph Agbo

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    Maria Ntinda

  4. University of Turku, Turku, Finland

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  5. University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

    Sonsoles López-Pernas, Mohammed Saqr & Mikko Apiola

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Agbo, F.J., Ntinda, M., López-Pernas, S., Saqr, M., Apiola, M. (2023). Computing Education Research in the Global South. In: Apiola, M., López-Pernas, S., Saqr, M. (eds) Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25336-2_15

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