RESPECT Conference 2024
RESPECT, the Conference on Research in Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology, is the premier venue for research on equity, inclusion and justice in computing and computing education. Now in its ninth edition, the RESPECT 2024 conference will be held in Atlanta, Ga., May 16-17, as one of the flagship conferences under the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) umbrella.
The conference includes more than 150 researchers and experts from 26 U.S. states, plus Germany, who will be presenting their latest work in subjects impacting and focused on computer science education.
Georgia Tech is hosting the conference, and it is chaired by Tamara Pearson, deputy director and senior director of Research and Programs in Georgia Tech’s Constellations Center for Equity in Computing.
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A Message from the Chair
RESPECT is the premier venue for research on equity, inclusion and justice in computing and computing education. Georgia Tech will host the 9th Annual RESPECT Conference, May 16-17.
As researchers, especially those of us focused on equity, freedom, and justice, our job is to give language to and make meaning of the joy, trauma, and unwavering spirit of the most vulnerable and marginalized among us.
Since research in this area is inherently interdisciplinary, the conference invites contributions from sociology, learning sciences, cognitive and/or social psychology, feminist theory, gender studies, educational leadership and policy, human-computer interaction, as well as computer science education and related disciplines. Additionally, recognizing the important role that educators, students, and other community members play as partners in equity-focused efforts, RESPECT 2024 welcomes the participation of those who have not traditionally identified as “researchers” to present, including teachers, students, advocates, and policy-makers.
Welcome to RESPECT 2024!
We are taking the opportunity to focus RESPECT 2024 on interrogating the many ways research and policy inform one another.
Featured Session
Punished for Dreaming: The Case for Abolitionist Teaching & Educational Reparations
May 16, 3:45 – 5 pm
Bettina Love, the William F. Russell Professor in the Teachers College at Columbia University and published book author, headlines the special RESPECT session “Punished for Dreaming: The Case for Abolitionist Teaching & Educational Reparations”. The session will be a candid and insightful conversation between Love and Kamau Bobb, executive director of Georgia Tech’s Constellations Center for Equity in Computing.
PREVIEW (from the publisher): In her book Punished for Dreaming, Bettina Love argues forcefully that Reagan’s presidency ushered in a War on Black Children, pathologizing and penalizing them in concert with the War on Drugs. New policies punished schools with policing, closure, and loss of funding in the name of reform, as white savior, egalitarian efforts increasingly allowed private interests to infiltrate the system. These changes implicated children of color, and Black children in particular, as low performing, making it all too easy to turn a blind eye to their disproportionate conviction and incarceration. Today, there is little national conversation about a structural overhaul of American schools; cosmetic changes, rooted in anti-Blackness, are now passed off as justice.
Co-sponsored by Georgia Tech’s Constellations Center for Equity in Computing and Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing in partnership with the Kapor Center.
Students collaborating at the College of Computing.
Students collaborating at the College of Computing.
Students collaborating at the College of Computing.