Mutual Discovery: Discovering a Community <=> Discovering a Discipline

Intro

Mutual engagement has been heralded as an ideal model of how faculty researchers should collaborate with students so the students can easily make the transition to become researchers. We go one step further and advocate a mutual discovery model, in which faculty and students approach the process as a shared journey, transparently exposing questions of ideology, axiology, etc.

We submitted a research report to the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing presenting early but promising results that show how integrating teaching and learning CRM across the computing curriculum aids in mutual discovery for both faculty and students and facilitates creating common ground. The paper presents our evidence via narratives by the different authors. All the authors were involved in a similar participatory design study in which CRM was integrated into students' curriculum. In the paper, we outline how one of the studies was designed and implemented and analyze results from all the efforts.

With the consent of the participants, we make available here the supporting materials for that report. We invite questions, comments, and especially inquiries from potential new collaborators.

Exploratory Labs

• PlcLabsIntro - Labs for Programming Languages Concepts, a transition-to-the-major class, given during Spring quarter, 2008, at CSU, East Bay. (First time we used the method in the class.)