BibTeX:

@Inbook{Becker2023,
author="Becker, Brett A.
and Bradley, Steven
and Maguire, Joseph
and Black, Michaela
and Crick, Tom
and Saqr, Mohammed
and Sentance, Sue
and Quille, Keith",
editor="Apiola, Mikko
and L{\'o}pez-Pernas, Sonsoles
and Saqr, Mohammed",
title="Computing Education Research in the UK {\&} Ireland",
bookTitle="Past, Present and Future of Computing Education Research : A Global Perspective",
year="2023",
publisher="Springer International Publishing",
address="Cham",
pages="421--479",
abstract="In 1970, SIGCSE had five members from England, Scotland and Wales. By 1983 Ireland had a member, followed by Northern Ireland in 1995. Well before then researchers from these countries had contributed to the growing CER community. In 1998 the 3rd ACM ITiCSE conference was held in Ireland. Since then researchers in these countries have contributed to advancing CER regionally and globally, hosting numerous ITiCSE and ICER conferences and spawning several influential research projects and groups. In the last decade two ACM SIGCSE Chapters (UK, and Ireland) were established along with two annual conferences: Computing Education Practice (CEP), and the UK {\&} Ireland Computing Education Research conference (UKICER) now in their 7th and 4th years. In 2022 ITiCSE returned to Ireland. This chapter describes more than 50 years of history and growth of CER within, and to come out of, the UK and Ireland, along with a scientometric study of research outputs.",
isbn="978-3-031-25336-2",
doi="10.1007/978-3-031-25336-2_19",
url="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25336-2_19"
}

EndNote:

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Faherty, Roisin
AU  - Nolan, Karen
AU  - Quille, Keith
AU  - Becker, Brett
AU  - Oldham, Elizabeth
PY  - 2023/03/01
Y2  - 2023/04/26
TI  - A Brief History of K-12 Computer Science Education in Ireland
JF  - International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools
JA  - IJCSES
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
SE  - Full Papers
DO  - 10.21585/ijcses.v6i1.148
UR  - https://www.ijcses.org/index.php/ijcses/article/view/148
SP  - 3-34
AB  - This paper brings together the history of Computer Science Education in Ireland. It aims to plot Ireland's road-map leading to the implementation of formal Computer Science Education in schools. This road map starts with the first notions of introducing secondary school children to computing in the 1970s up to the roll out of a nationwide Computer Science curriculum in secondary school at the Senior Cycle level in 2018. This story is only available in disparate publications and reports, and piecing together the entire story is often difficult especially if you are from another jurisdiction and unfamiliar with the Irish education system. This paper collates the available literature as well as the authors local knowledge of the process, into one usable form that may be of interest locally and of value to other jurisdictions that are beginning their planning of national or regional curricula. This paper describes the development and the current situation of the formal curricula and standards in Computer Science at second level. The current landscape of Computing Education at primary level, which is currently in the planning stages in Ireland, will also be described. Additionally, an investigation into the current landscape of Computing Education in schools in the international jurisdictions that directly influenced the Irish roll out takes place, to evaluate their progress and summarize any lessons learned that might provide insights for Ireland going forward

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