Empowering children through design and making : towards protagonist role adoption |
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Author: | Iivari, Netta1; Kinnula, Marianne1 |
Organizations: |
1INTERACT Research Unit, University of Oulu , P.O. Box 3000 Finland |
Format: | article |
Version: | accepted version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.5 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2018120349684 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Association for Computing Machinery,
2018
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Publish Date: | 2018-12-03 |
Description: |
AbstractInviting children to adopt a Protagonist role regarding technology has recently become advocated. Such a role embraces the original political participatory design (PD) agenda and aims at empowerment of children through design and making. However, so far the literature is limited in exploring the adoption of this role by children. While studies have reported experiences of engaging children in design and making activities, in-depth inquiries on children’s experiences and challenges involved are lacking. We also maintain that the PD community has so far neglected education of children — in participation, design and technology — as our task and duty. This study reports findings from a design and making project aiming at empowerment of children, carried out in school context. We show that adopting the Protagonist role is not easy and there is a lot of variety between children. We present children’s experiences and reflect on the challenges involved in progressing towards Protagonist role adoption. see all
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ISBN: | 978-1-4503-6371-6 |
Volume: | 1 |
Article number: | 16 |
DOI: | 10.1145/3210586.3210600 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1145/3210586.3210600 |
Host publication: |
Proceedings of the 15th Participatory Design Conference: Full Papers - PDC '18. August 20-24, Hasselt and Genk, Belgium |
Host publication editor: |
Huybrechts, Liesbeth Teli, Maurizio Light, Ann Lee, Yanki Garde, Julia Vines, John Brandt, Eva Kanstrup, Anne Marie Bødker, Keld |
Conference: |
Participatory Design Conference |
Type of Publication: |
A4 Article in conference proceedings |
Field of Science: |
113 Computer and information sciences |
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Copyright information: |
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ACM. |