This literature review identifies the content and scope of empirical academic research on
making, makerspaces, and fablabs. Using an overview approach, 150 peer reviewed …

Abstract The Maker Movement has gathered much attention recently, and has been one of
the fastest-growing topics, due to contemporary technical and infrastructural developments …

In this essay, Shirin Vossoughi, Paula Hooper, and Meg Escudé advance a critique of
branded, culturally normative definitions of making and caution against their uncritical …

Foundations of Embodied Learning advances learning, instruction, and the design of
educational technologies by rethinking the learner as an integrated system of mind, body …

More and more young people are learning about science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM) in a wide variety of afterschool, summer, and informal programs. At the …

Women use technology to mediate numerous aspects of their professional and personal
lives. Yet, few design and create these technologies given that women, especially women of …

Background In recent years, makerspaces have become increasingly common venues of
STEM education and are rapidly being incorporated into undergraduate programs. These …

This paper argues that the terms through which we interpret and work to develop expansive
pedagogical practices are overly constrained by the binary of adult-centered versus child …

The maker movement has sparked interest from stakeholders in K12 educational institutions
based on its emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) content …

Maker culture is part of a burgeoning movement in which individuals leverage modern
digital technologies to produce and share physical artifacts with a broader community …