Birgit Fahrman
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About
Birgit Fahrman is a researcher at the forefront of technology education, with a specific focus on how young children learn to program. Her work sits at the intersection of computational thinking, primary education, and human-robot interaction, exploring how students as young as first grade perceive and use code. Her most cited study, "Kod som teknisk lösning" (2021), investigates how primary school students (years 1 and 4) understand functionality in their spontaneous programming language when controlling a simple robot, emphasizing collaborative classroom activities. Fahrman’s research provides crucial insights into the cognitive strategies students employ, as seen in her 2023 study on the strategies used when programming a robot to follow a curved line. While her citation counts (6 and 3 respectively) reflect the emerging nature of this field, her work is highly influential in shaping pedagogical approaches to the new programming curriculum in Swedish compulsory schools, introduced in 2018. By documenting the challenges and strategies of both teachers and students, Fahrman is helping to define best practices for integrating computational thinking into technology education at the earliest levels.
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