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Anthology dedicated to computer science education in primary schools

07.01.2026|11:30 Uhr

Children today are growing up in a digital world. The aim of computer science education is to teach them to act independently and responsibly. A new anthology, published by researchers from the University of Wuppertal together with colleagues from the University of Duisburg-Essen and the University of Halle, sheds light on how this can be achieved in primary schools, especially in the subject of general studies, and what experiences, teaching and learning concepts and discussions there are in this regard.

Cover publisher Julius Klinkhardt, cover illustration © Jan Grey / ChatGPT

Even primary school education faces the challenge of integrating IT skills into subject teaching and implementing them across all subjects in order to enable pupils to act responsibly in their IT-influenced world and to be able to participate in it. The new anthology shows that there are very different approaches to realising this project. It is aimed at anyone who has anything to do with IT education in primary schools.

Authors from both subject didactics and computer science didactics contribute didactic concepts, political and subject didactic discussions, empirical findings and reports from school and training practice to this volume.

The 275-page book "Informatische Bildung in der Grundschule. Befunde, Diskussionen, Erfahrungen" is published by Julius Klinkhardt Verlag and is available for 24.90 euros. The eBook of the title is published in open access and can be downloaded for free via the following link: doi.org/10.35468/6203.

Dr Jan Grey and Prof Dr Miriam Kuckuck (both Didactics of Sachunterricht) as well as Denise Schmitz and Prof Dr Ludger Humbert (both Didactics of Computer Science) from the University of Wuppertal are involved in the anthology as editors and authors.