Is Programming Dead in Teacher Education?
Antoinette Cutler Kelley, Rowena Santiago, Susan Cooper · Journal of Computing in Teacher Education · 1994
Teacher education has always been faced with persistent issues regarding computer coursework for teachers: should programming skills be included in teacher education coursework and, if programming is offered, what language will be used to teach these skills? To describe decisions made regarding these issues, a survey was conducted among twenty campuses of the California State University (CSU) System through the Association of State Technology-Using Teacher Educators (ASTUTE). Using a twenty-item questionnaire, data were gathered to address the following: if programming is still offered in the CSU teacher education curriculum, how is it designed in the curriculum, what goals are targeted by offering programming, and what programming languages are used and how? Results show that programming has not been completely eliminated from CSU teacher education but it is evolving to include authoring tools and is still being taught for the same controversial reasons that are debated in the literature.