Maker Literacies and Maker Identities in the Digital Age

This book explores 'making' in the school curriculum in a period in which the ability to create and respond to digital artefacts is key and focuses on makerspaces in educational settings.

Informationen zum Autor Cheryl A. McLean is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University, USA. Jennifer Rowsell is Professor of Literacies and Social Innovation and Deputy Head of School at the School of Education, University of Bristol, UK. Klappentext This book explores "making" in the school curriculum in a period in which the ability to create and respond to digital artifacts is key and focuses on makerspaces in educational settings. Combining the arts with design to give a fuller picture of the engagement and wonder that unfolds with maker literacies, the book moves across such settings and themes as:Creativity and writing in classroomsMaking and developing civic engagementEmotional experiences of makingRace and gender in makerspaceGame-based play and coding in schoolsand draws its case studies from the Netherlands, Finland, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.Giving as broad a perspective on makerspaces, making, and design as possible, the book will help scholars expand their understandings and help educators appreciate the power and worth of making to inspire students. It is useful for anyone hoping to apply design, maker, and makerspace approaches to their teaching and learning. Zusammenfassung This book explores 'making' in the school curriculum in a period in which the ability to create and respond to digital artefacts is key and focuses on makerspaces in educational settings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Towards a notion of perceptual making. 1. 'Unruly Rules': Using Defamiliarisation to Tinker with Punctuation in Creative Writing Workshops. 2. Play in the Making: Developing a Range of Literacies through Making and Game-Based Activities 3. (Re)Mediating the Everyday: Examining Young Children's Remediated Personal Narratives as Maker Literacies. 4. Re-configuring the Early Childhood Classroom as a Multimodal Makerspace. 5. Arts-Based Practice: A Tactical Pedagogy. 6. Makerspaces in K-12 Schools: Six Key Tensions. 7. Making Futures, Composing Worlds: Examining Young Children's Making as Speculative Design. 8. The Sociomaterial Ecology of Emotions in a School's Makerspace. 9. For a Fugitive Game Studies: Female Life's Break from Game Culture and Black-Queer-Neurodiverse-Postcapitalist Revaluations of Game Study. 10. Crafting Stories and Cracking Codes in a Canadian Elementary School. Afterword: Dwelling on Making. ...

Autorentext

Cheryl A. McLean is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University, USA.

Jennifer Rowsell is Professor of Literacies and Social Innovation and Deputy Head of School at the School of Education, University of Bristol, UK.

Klappentext

This book explores "making" in the school curriculum in a period in which the ability to create and respond to digital artifacts is key and focuses on makerspaces in educational settings. Combining the arts with design to give a fuller picture of the engagement and wonder that unfolds with maker literacies, the book moves across such settings and themes as: Creativity and writing in classrooms Making and developing civic engagement Emotional experiences of making Race and gender in makerspace Game-based play and coding in schools and draws its case studies from the Netherlands, Finland, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Giving as broad a perspective on makerspaces, making, and design as possible, the book will help scholars expand their understandings and help educators appreciate the power and worth of making to inspire students. It is useful for anyone hoping to apply design, maker, and makerspace approaches to their teaching and learning.

Zusammenfassung
This book explores 'making' in the school curriculum in a period in which the ability to create and respond to digital artefacts is key and focuses on makerspaces in educational settings.

Inhalt

Introduction: Towards a notion of perceptual making. 1. 'Unruly Rules': Using Defamiliarisation to Tinker with Punctuation in Creative Writing Workshops. 2. Play in the Making: Developing a Range of Literacies through Making and Game-Based Activities 3. (Re)Mediating the Everyday: Examining Young Children's Remediated Personal Narratives as Maker Literacies. 4. Re-configuring the Early Childhood Classroom as a Multimodal Makerspace. 5. Arts-Based Practice: A Tactical Pedagogy. 6. Makerspaces in K-12 Schools: Six Key Tensions. 7. Making Futures, Composing Worlds: Examining Young Children's Making as Speculative Design. 8. The Sociomaterial Ecology of Emotions in a School's Makerspace. 9. For a Fugitive Game Studies: Female Life's Break from Game Culture and Black-Queer-Neurodiverse-Postcapitalist Revaluations of Game Study. 10. Crafting Stories and Cracking Codes in a Canadian Elementary School. Afterword: Dwelling on Making.