Oh No, Not Another Trolley! On the Need for a Co-Liberative Consciousness in CS Pedagogy

Performative Ethics From Within the Ivory Tower: How CS Practitioners Uphold Systems of Oppression

“…This gap in student understanding is further illustrated by the ways that they implicitly identify "society" as medical practitioners, institutions, families, and friends-those social agents whom [sic] traditionally have substantial power over disabled people's access to care, culture, and life." (Williams, Smarr, Prioleau, & Gilbert, 2022).…”

“…In their work on coliberative consciousness in CS pedagogy, Williams et al show that despite having an understanding of social justice issues, many students still envision ethical issues with AI systems as a result of "biased datasets and human mis/trust factors, rather than as problems of design and purpose" supporting the idea of a kind of colorblindness present among engineers and technologists (Williams et al, 2022). They explain, "Even when ethics are directly addressed in CS curriculum, instruction tends to focus around professional, corporate, or legalistic frames of ethical behavior rather than the ethics of developing and deploying systems within their sociotechnical context" (Williams et al, 2022). There is a present belief that objectivity, merit, or following suggested guidelines within these frames, are the criteria for 'fair' systems.…”

Science class as clinic: Why histories of segregated instruction matter for health equity reforms today

“…Recent studies discuss at least ten issues around which students, teachers, and teacher educators might examine scientific and sociopolitical dimensions of the pandemic as matters of pressing global concern. These include: heightened viral exposures of delivery, healthcare, and other essential workers (Forsythe & Chan, 2021), disparate resources for sheltering at home (Rezende et al, 2021), inequitable access to medical facilities (Rodrigues & Lowan-Trudeau, 2021), racializing narratives of irresponsible patients (Mark, 2022), systemic racism in healthcare institutions (Saddler et al, 2021), racialized medical devices like the pulse oximeter (Waight et al, 2022), racially biased healthcare management algorithms (Cheuk, 2021), disability and the rationing of lifesaving resources (Williams et al, 2022), unjust domestic and global vaccine distribution (Raveendran & Bazzul, 2021), and intensified environmental racism (Forsythe & Chan, 2021).…”