Materials-to-Develop-with: The Making of a Makerspace

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Title: Materials-to-Develop-with: The Making of a Makerspace
Abstract/Description: Celebrating hands-on making and technological inventiveness, the Maker Movement promotes the popularity of new makerspaces: learning environments filled with diverse materials for youth’s creative projects. Described as “constructionist learning environments,” makerspaces can be challenging to design because materials require substantial budgetary investments. Because the practical demands of space and cost often dominate decisions concerning a new makerspace, less attention is paid to how the choice of materials inadvertently limits who uses the space, how learning happens, or how materials in a space will interact and intra-act over time. Building on theories of constructionism and relational materialism to analyze and theorize learning in makerspaces, we take a case-based approach to illustrate the co-development of 3D printing materials, youth and educational programs at an out-of-school makerspace. In the process, we demonstrate the need to rethink the role of materials in human development and educational design. We introduce the concept of materials-to-develop-with to explain how objects can be internalized and drive the development of spaces, people and learning opportunities.
Author/creator: Keune, Anna; Peppler, Kylie
Date: 2019
In publication: British Journal of Educational Technology
Volume: 50
Issue: 1
Pages: 280-293
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Empirical
Language: en
Open access/full-text available: en Yes
Peer reviewed: en Yes
ISSN: 1467-8535
DOI: 10.1111/bjet.12702
URL: Official Publisher's Webpage (Wiley Online Library); Open Access Article (University of California eScholarship)
Citation: Keune, A., & Peppler, K. (2019). Materials-to-Develop-with: The Making of a Makerspace. British Journal of Educational Technology, 50(1), 280–293. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12702
Cited in: Design Thinking and the Learning Sciences: Theoretical, Practical, and Empirical Perspectives

Item sets: OB Citations - Design Thinking and the Learning Sciences

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