Making Leaders: Leadership Characteristics Of Makers And Engineers In The Maker Community

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Work in Progress - An Equity Bifocals Framework for University Makerspaces

“…Within the engineering education community, scholarship on equity exists [5] but is not often situated as a central research goal in makerspace research [6]- [8]. One body of generous scholarship on university makerspaces highlights the promise of makerspaces for engineering education [9], including opportunities to promote a growth mindset [10], to support community development as spaces run by students [8], and to develop leadership characteristics [11]. Often publications within this body of work conclude with calls to action to carefully consider the audience and who is included in the maker movement.…”

Making People and Projects: Implications for Designing Making-Based Learning Experiences

“…Flexible space for activity are growing in popularity and use with hacker spaces 19 and Maker spaces and fab labs. 20 A Maker [21][22][23][24][25] is an emerging colloquial term we use to describe a group of do-it-yourself minded individuals participating in informal communities (doing-it-with-others) that support and celebrate prototyping technical proof-ofconcept exploration and ad-hoc product development. The range of Makers' expertise could be large, but novices and experts alike share an enthusiasm for creating the additive innovation philosophy.…”

“…This work builds on our ongoing efforts to understand the educational pathways of Adult Makers and Young Makers in the wild. Previous publications have described these efforts, inclusive of our methods, and knowledge and skills Makers demonstrate [1][2][3][4][21][22][23][24][25] . The focus of this paper is to provide categories and details for Making-Based Learning that can be relevant in the classroom.…”