Papers, books, and other associated material that I have written or contributed towards are listed here. Please contact me if you have any questions about any of these publications.
This list is updated periodically; to view my very latest publications, please see my Google Scholar profile, my Orcid profile or my ACM profile.
To date I have worked on several areas and topics of computing education research, including:
- Physical computing
- Role models in computing education
- Collaborative pedagogies in computing (e.g. pair programming, peer instruction)
- Identity in computing education
- Computational thinking
- Culturally relevant and responsive approaches to teaching computing
- Data science for machine learning
Academic publications
Dodoo, E. R., Childs, K., & Tshukudu, E. (2025, October). Exploring the Role of Culture and Bilingualism in Programming Activities: Lessons from African Educators. In Proceedings of the ACM Global on Computing Education Conference 2025 Vol 1 (pp. 282-288).
Childs, K., Tshukudu, E., Alogeng, G., Case, D., Molebatsi, T. V., & Dodoo, E. R. (2025, October). Secondary Students’ Conceptions of AI in an African Country. In Proceedings of the ACM Global on Computing Education Conference 2025 Vol 2 (pp. 383-384).
Childs, K. and Waite, J. 2024. Funds of identity and culturally responsive computing: K-5 teachers’ adaptations to computing resources. In Proceedings of the 19th WiPSCE Conference on Primary and Secondary Computing Education Research (WiPSCE ’24).
Childs., K, Hadwen-Bennett, A., and Waite, J. 2024. K-5 pupils’ responses to culturally responsive computing lessons. In Proceedings of the 19th WiPSCE Conference on Primary and Secondary Computing Education Research (WiPSCE ’24).
Childs, K., & Sentance, S. (2024). Investigating the impact of introducing pair programming to primary computing education on female pupils’ attitudes towards computing. International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 7(1).
Price. A., Childs, K., and Sentance, S. 2024. It’s Useful But Not Interesting: Girls on Computing in School. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER ’24).
Tshukudu, E., Kallia, M., Childs, K., & Darragh, W. (2023). Broadening Participation in Computing: Experiences of the Hour of Code in an African Country. In Proceedings of the 18th WiPSCE Conference on Primary and Secondary Computing Education Research (pp. 1-4).
Leonard, H. C., Childs, K., Waite, J., Whyte, R., & Sentance, S. (2023). Engaging primary (K-5) computing teachers in culturally relevant pedagogy through professional development. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research (pp. 1-7).
Rizvi, S., Sentance, S., Childs, K., Leonard, H., Quinlan, O., & Waite, J. (2022). Use of storytelling to increase engagement and motivation in computing in lower primary schools. In Proceedings of the 17th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education (pp. 1-2).
Childs, K. (2021). Factors that impact gender balance in computing. In Proceedings of the Raspberry Pi Foundation Research Seminar series Vol 1 (pp.1-10).
Hill, G., Turner, S. J., & Childs, K. (2017, May). The answer’s not on the screen. In 13th China Europe Symposium on Software Engineering Education (CEISEE).
Books
Sentance, S. & Childs, K. (2020). X-ing boundaries with physical computing. In Grover, S. (Ed.), Computer Science in K-12: An A-Z Handbook on teaching programming (1st ed., pp. 250–258). Edfinity.
Turner, S. J. & Childs, K. (2016) Artists. In Caldwell, S. & Smith, N. (Eds.) Teaching Computing Unplugged in Primary Schools: Exploring primary computing through practical activities away from the computer (1st ed., pp. 51-72). Sage Publications Ltd.
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