TY - GEN
T1 - Examining Gendered Communications of Coding Kits for Young Children
AU - Cen, Jingyao
AU - Yu, Junnan
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PY - 2023/6/19
Y1 - 2023/6/19
N2 - Designing computational toys and kits to welcome young children from different genders is essential to broaden participation in computing, as they play a critical role in facilitating children’s development of computational thinking. However, how young learners of different genders are being welcomed by these kits remains unclear. In this paper, we report our in-progress work examining how commercially available coding kits for young children are communicated from a gender perspective. Specifically, we analyzed the gender indications in the product descriptions and advertisement images of 30 kits, revealing a relatively balanced gender representation in images while significantly boy-oriented use of words in product descriptions. Ultimately, we call for attention and actions to more gender-inclusive communication of STEM toys for children.
AB - Designing computational toys and kits to welcome young children from different genders is essential to broaden participation in computing, as they play a critical role in facilitating children’s development of computational thinking. However, how young learners of different genders are being welcomed by these kits remains unclear. In this paper, we report our in-progress work examining how commercially available coding kits for young children are communicated from a gender perspective. Specifically, we analyzed the gender indications in the product descriptions and advertisement images of 30 kits, revealing a relatively balanced gender representation in images while significantly boy-oriented use of words in product descriptions. Ultimately, we call for attention and actions to more gender-inclusive communication of STEM toys for children.
KW - Coding Kits
KW - Gendered Images
KW - Gendered Language
KW - Inclusiveness
KW - Young Children
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85169075640&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3585088.3593859
DO - 10.1145/3585088.3593859
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85169075640
T3 - Proceedings of IDC 2023 - 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Rediscovering Childhood
SP - 624
EP - 629
BT - Proceedings of IDC 2023 - 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Rediscovering Childhood, IDC 2023
Y2 - 19 June 2023 through 22 June 2023
ER -