Digital fabrication and Making with children : scrutinizing adult actors’ strategies and challenges in mediating young people’s activities |
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Author: | Norouzi, Behnaz1; Kinnula, Marianne1; Iivari, Netta1 |
Organizations: |
1University of Oulu, Interact Research Unit, 90100 Oulu, Finland |
Format: | article |
Version: | published version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.7 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2021042712887 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Elsevier,
2021
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Publish Date: | 2021-04-27 |
Description: |
AbstractCultivating children’s Maker mindset by facilitating their involvement in Makerspaces is recognized by researchers around the world as a topic worth investigating. Previous studies have revealed several different roles for the adults involved; however, there is little elaboration on the characteristics and strategies associated with these roles. This study focuses on digital fabrication and Making activities with children aged 7–17 (K12). It presents the results of interview data collected from nine adult actors analysed using nexus analytic concepts of interaction order and historical body as sensitizing devices. The results reveal the diverse strategies the adult actors employed as the mediators of children’s learning, independent of their formal roles, when engaged with children. The study identifies numerous challenges the adult actors faced. Overall, it shows significant variety in the mediation of children’s digital fabrication and Making activities, shaped by adult actors with different histories and backgrounds and within different contexts. The study includes the implications for the research and practice of digital fabrication and Making with children. see all
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Series: |
International journal of child-computer interaction |
ISSN: | 2212-8689 |
ISSN-E: | 2212-8697 |
ISSN-L: | 2212-8689 |
Volume: | 28 |
Article number: | 100267 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijcci.2021.100267 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2021.100267 |
Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
Field of Science: |
113 Computer and information sciences |
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Funding: |
This research is connected to the GenZ project, a strategic profiling project in human sciences at the University of Oulu. The project is supported by the Academy of Finland (grant agreements No. 318930 and No. 324685, Make-A-Difference). This research was additionally funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme (grant agreement No. 787476, COMnPLAY SCIENCE). |
Academy of Finland Grant Number: |
318930 324685 |
Detailed Information: |
318930 (Academy of Finland Funding decision) 324685 (Academy of Finland Funding decision) |
Copyright information: |
© 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-
nd/4.0/). |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |