{"id":1942,"date":"2022-10-26T19:43:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T00:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/?page_id=1942"},"modified":"2026-01-27T16:20:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:20:02","slug":"black-boy-joy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/black-boy-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Boy Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/737\/2022\/10\/BlackBoyJoy-pic-296x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/737\/2022\/10\/BlackBoyJoy-pic-296x300.png 296w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/737\/2022\/10\/BlackBoyJoy-pic.png 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Description<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal of my dissertation work is to investigate effective pedagogies to increase the interest and persistence of black middle school boys in computer science (CS) in the United States. It will identify significant factors for low interest and low persistence of black boys in computer science through existing literature, examine effective strategies for black boys participating in computer science, and conduct experiments to measure the effectiveness of strategies and pedagogies for increasing the participation of black boys in computer science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:1px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Researchers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/joseph-isaac\/\">Joseph Isaac, Jr.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/christina-gardner-mccune\/\">Dr. Christina Gardner-McCune<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Peer Reviewed Conference Papers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Isaac Jr, J.\u00a0<\/strong>&amp; Gardner-McCune, C. (2021). \u201cDeveloping Introductory Computer Science Pedagogy for Black Boys\u201d. RESPECT.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Isaac Jr, J.<\/strong>, Jimenez, Y., &amp; Gardner-McCune, C. (2020). \u201cEngaging 4th and 5th Grade Students with Cultural Pedagogy in Introductory Programming\u201d. RESPECT.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description The goal of my dissertation work is to investigate effective pedagogies to increase the interest and persistence of black middle school boys in computer science (CS) in the United States. It will identify significant factors for low interest and low persistence of black boys in computer science through existing literature, examine effective strategies for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-sidebar-none.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1942","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2315,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1942\/revisions\/2315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/engaging-learning-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}