Abstract
Maker education offers opportunities to stimulate the creativity of young people in various types of education. How to guide these learning processes, however, is an unexplored area for the supervisors (teachers and librarians). In the research-project presented, a professional learning community of librarians, teacher-researchers and maker educators investigates the pedagogy of ‘making’. The learning community consisted of twelve makerspace-coaches, three maker educators and three researchers. The interventions for enhancing creativity that were developed varied from redesign of the tasks to new forms of guiding students. It was noticed that the children came up with new ideas and were motivated to push out their frontiers. Furthermore, the coaches experienced that children’s creativity is not always visible in the final products of their making process, but rather in the process of making. The learning community turned out to be a fruitful approach for professionalization of makerspace-coaches.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the ATEE Winter Conference 15-17 April 2019 |
Subtitle of host publication | Science and mathematics education in the 21st century |
Editors | Laurinda Leite, Elizabeth Oldham, Luísa Carvalho, Ana S. Afonso, Floriano Viseu, Luís Dourado, Maria Helena Martinho |
Place of Publication | Brussels |
Publisher | ATEE |
Pages | 34-43 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789082506549 |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Event | ATEE (Association for Teacher Education in Europe) Winter Conference 2019: Science and mathematics education in the 21st century - Braga, Portugal Duration: 15 Apr 2019 → 17 Apr 2019 |
Conference
Conference | ATEE (Association for Teacher Education in Europe) Winter Conference 2019 |
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Abbreviated title | ATEE 2019 |
Country/Territory | Portugal |
City | Braga |
Period | 15/04/19 → 17/04/19 |