Full Description
In this book two fields meet, Technology Education with its long history, and Maker Education, a relative new shoot in the educational field. Both focus on learning through making and both value agency and motivation of learners. The purpose of this book is to understand and analyze the kind of informal and formal educational activities that take place under the umbrella of the Maker Movement and then relate this to the field of Technology Education to uncover what researchers, innovators and teachers in this field can learn from the principles, ideas and practices that are central to the Maker Movement and vice versa.
The book contains two types of chapters. The first type is case study chapters that span from Mexico, China, Korea, Denmark, the Netherlands to Kenya and from primary to tertiary level, showing a variety of good practices in maker education including both formal and informal contexts. In the subsequent thematic chapters, dedicated authors have used the case studies to reflect on themes such as curriculum reform, social learning, materiality, spatial thinking, informal versus formal learning as well as the sustainability of learning and relate what is happening in Maker Education with Technology Education to imagine possible futures for Maker Education.
Contents
Preface
Marc de Vries and Remke Klapwijk
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
PART 1: The Rise of Maker Education across the World
1 Introduction
Remke Klapwijk and Marc de Vries
2 The Development and Evolution of Maker Education in China
Jianjun Gu and Qiuyue Yang
3 A Participatory Design Approach to Sustaining Makerspace Initiatives
Katrine Holm Kanstrup, Ole Sejer Iversen, Maarten Van Mechelen, Christian Dindler and Marie-Louise Wagner
PART 2: Case-Studies on Maker Education
4 Informal Learning in a Public Library Makerspace for Youth in the Netherlands
Monique Pijls, Tom van Eijck and Bert Bredeweg
5 Using "EcoMakerKits" to Stimulate Maker Mindset and Circular Thinking in Mexico
Álvaro Núñez-Solís, Suneel Madahar, Nathan Eskue and Miroslava Silva-Ordaz
6 Playful Learning by Design in Kenya: Remote Development of Design Education Workshops for Rural Kenya
Marten B. Westerhof, Mathieu Gielen, Annemiek G. C. van Boeijen and James Otieno Jowi
7 Connecting Maker Education to Secondary School Technology Education in Korea: A Case of the Technology Teachers' Learning Community in Republic of Korea
Hyuksoo Kwon
8 Case Studies of Maker Education in China
Gu Jianjun and Yang Qiuyue
9 Maker Education in the Applied Physics Bachelor Programme at Delft University of Technology
Freek Pols and Rolf Hut
PART 3: Thematic Reflections
10 Maker Pedagogy
P. John Williams
11 Dynamic Roles of Materiality in Maker Education
Varpu Mehto and Kaiju Kangas
12 Social Learning: Does Cooperation Contribute to the Learning of the Makers?
Wendy Fox-Turnbull
13 Reflecting on Maker Education as a Potential Context for the Development of Spatial Ability
Jeffrey Buckley
14 Making in Informal and Formal Settings
Gerald van Dijk and Elwin Savelsbergh
15 Sustainability of the Case Study Maker Education Initiatives
HildaRuth Beaumont
16 Conclusions
Marc de Vries and Remke Klapwijk
Index
