Makerspace in STEM for girls: a physical space to develop twenty-first-century skills
Makerspace has been lauded as a new way forward to create communities, empower students and bring together enthusiasts of all ages and skill levels “to tinker” and create. Makerspace education has been touted as having the potential to empower young people to become agents of change in their communi...
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Taylor and Francis
2017
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| author | Sheffield, R. Koul, R. Blackley, Susan Maynard, N. |
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| description | Makerspace has been lauded as a new way forward to create communities, empower students and bring together enthusiasts of all ages and skill levels “to tinker” and create. Makerspace education has been touted as having the potential to empower young people to become agents of change in their communities. This paper examines how a Makerspace approach can capture the imagination and creativity of female primary school students, and engage them in integrated STEM-based projects. The study scaffolded female tertiary undergraduate students to mentor small groups of girls to complete a project in a STEM Makerspace situated in classrooms. The data generated and analysed from this study were used to determine how Makerspace STEM-based projects were enacted, how they engaged and supported the girls’ learning, and considers the future of a Makerspace approach as a way to progress integrated STEM education. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-567422018-02-06T07:27:41Z Makerspace in STEM for girls: a physical space to develop twenty-first-century skills Sheffield, R. Koul, R. Blackley, Susan Maynard, N. Makerspace has been lauded as a new way forward to create communities, empower students and bring together enthusiasts of all ages and skill levels “to tinker” and create. Makerspace education has been touted as having the potential to empower young people to become agents of change in their communities. This paper examines how a Makerspace approach can capture the imagination and creativity of female primary school students, and engage them in integrated STEM-based projects. The study scaffolded female tertiary undergraduate students to mentor small groups of girls to complete a project in a STEM Makerspace situated in classrooms. The data generated and analysed from this study were used to determine how Makerspace STEM-based projects were enacted, how they engaged and supported the girls’ learning, and considers the future of a Makerspace approach as a way to progress integrated STEM education. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56742 10.1080/09523987.2017.1362812 Taylor and Francis restricted |
| spellingShingle | Sheffield, R. Koul, R. Blackley, Susan Maynard, N. Makerspace in STEM for girls: a physical space to develop twenty-first-century skills |
| title | Makerspace in STEM for girls: a physical space to develop twenty-first-century skills |
| title_full | Makerspace in STEM for girls: a physical space to develop twenty-first-century skills |
| title_fullStr | Makerspace in STEM for girls: a physical space to develop twenty-first-century skills |
| title_full_unstemmed | Makerspace in STEM for girls: a physical space to develop twenty-first-century skills |
| title_short | Makerspace in STEM for girls: a physical space to develop twenty-first-century skills |
| title_sort | makerspace in stem for girls: a physical space to develop twenty-first-century skills |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56742 |