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Making at scale: A development strategy for expanding access to progressive educational goals
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Type
Book chapter
Citation
Tan, M. (2021). Making at scale: A development strategy for expanding access to progressive educational goals. In E. R. Koh & D. W. L. Hung (Eds.), Scaling up ICT-based innovations in schools: The Singapore experience (pp. 89-107). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4469-6_5
Abstract
The maker movement has attracted much recent attention as a cultural and material technology promising to revolutionise learning in a variety of contexts. Although the marquee aspects of the movement appear to be the increased ease of access to advanced manufacturing technologies such as the 3D printer, the educational significance of such a movement may not be located in the things, but rather, the people. Specifically, the educative promise of makerspaces lies in the cultural organisation of people to use the things to achieve educational goals distinct from the traditional. Based on this principle, an investigation into the possible diverse goals for learning needs to accompany strategies for persuading teachers to consider these goals as important. In this chapter, I report on the challenges of framing a curriculum innovation in the form of a ‘Trojan Horse’ gift of 3D printers to school. Through two comparative case studies, I will elaborate on the relative importance of changing things and changing goals, and whether it is possible to change goals by changing things.
Date Issued
2021
ISBN
978981164469-6 (online)
9789811644719 (print)
Publisher
Springer