The promise and the promises of making in science education

B Bevan - Studies in Science Education, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Making is a rapidly emerging form of educational practice that involves the design,
construction, testing, and revision of a wide variety of objects, using high and low …

Learning through STEM‐rich tinkering: Findings from a jointly negotiated research project taken up in practice

B Bevan, JP Gutwill, M Petrich… - Science Education, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The Maker Movement has taken the educational field by storm due to its
perceived potential as a driver of creativity, excitement, and innovation (Honey & Kanter,; …

Research to practice: Observing learning in tinkering activities

JP Gutwill, N Hido, L Sindorf - Curator: The Museum Journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
As tinkering and making spaces proliferate in museums, many researchers, practitioners,
funders, and policy‐makers seek to understand what constitutes learning‐through‐tinkering …

Disruptive moments as opportunities towards justice‐oriented pedagogical practice in Informal Science Learning

A Calabrese Barton, D Greenberg, WJ Kim… - Science …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the promise of Informal Science Learning settings (ISLs) in supporting youth science
engagement in ways that value their experiences and communities, in practice, such …

The magic of informal settings: A literature review of partnerships and collaborations that support preservice science teacher education across the globe

N Cooke-Nieves, J Wallace, P Gupta… - Handbook of research …, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Examining the critical role of informal science learning environments in supporting science
teacher preparation, this chapter provides a review of the literature on partnerships and …

Learning to make in the museum: The role of maker educators

L Brahms, K Crowley - Makeology, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter focuses on the design of an informal learning program, called Family Creative
Learning, where children and their families learn together as designers and inventors …

The Effect of web augmented reality on primary pupils' achievement in English

HA Hussein, MH Ali, M Al-Hashimi, NT Majeed… - Applied System …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The massive development of mobile computing and mobile networks attracts developers
and researchers to emerge a new direction for augmented reality on the Web. Web …

Science museum educators' professional growth: Dynamics of changes in research–practitioner collaboration

J Piqueras, M Achiam - Science Education, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Educators' work is a key element in museums' learning experience, yet knowledge about
their professional development is still limited. In this study, we followed three science …

Creativity in science: A dilemma for informal and formal education

D Martins Gomes, V McCauley - Science Education, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Inquiry learning pedagogies have not only been proposed as a successful teaching
methodology to draw students into science, they are also rich with possibilities for creativity …

What we've learned: A research agenda for a museum, 7 years later

K Hammerness, A MacPherson, P Gupta… - … The Museum Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We have been learning about the learning of children and youth, teachers, and visitors over
the course of 7 years as we developed and deepened a research agenda in education in …