Maker Literacies and Maker Identities in the Digital Age: Learning and Playing T

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This book explores 'making' in the school curriculum in a period in which the ability to create and respond to digital artefacts is key and focuses on makerspaces in educational settings.

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This book explores "making" in the school curriculum in a period in which the ability to create and respond to digital artifacts is key and focuses on makerspaces in educational settings. Combining the arts with design to give a fuller picture of the engagement and wonder that unfolds with maker literacies, the book moves across such settings and themes as: Creativity and writing in classroomsMaking and developing civic engagementEmotional experiences of makingRace and gender in makerspaceGame-based play and coding in schoolsand draws its case studies from the Netherlands, Finland, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.Giving as broad a perspective on makerspaces, making, and design as possible, the book will help scholars expand their understandings and help educators appreciate the power and worth of making to inspire students. It is useful for anyone hoping to apply design, maker, and makerspace approaches to their teaching and learning.

Author Biography

Cheryl A. McLean is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University, USA. Jennifer Rowsell is Professor of Literacies and Social Innovation and Deputy Head of School at the School of Education, University of Bristol, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Towards a notion of perceptual making. 1. 'Unruly Rules': Using Defamiliarisation to Tinker with Punctuation in Creative Writing Workshops. 2. Play in the Making: Developing a Range of Literacies through Making and Game-Based Activities 3. (Re)Mediating the Everyday: Examining Young Children's Remediated Personal Narratives as Maker Literacies. 4. Re-configuring the Early Childhood Classroom as a Multimodal Makerspace. 5. Arts-Based Practice: A Tactical Pedagogy. 6. Makerspaces in K-12 Schools: Six Key Tensions. 7. Making Futures, Composing Worlds: Examining Young Children's Making as Speculative Design. 8. The Sociomaterial Ecology of Emotions in a School's Makerspace. 9. For a Fugitive Game Studies: Female Life's Break from Game Culture and Black-Queer-Neurodiverse-Postcapitalist Revaluations of Game Study. 10. Crafting Stories and Cracking Codes in a Canadian Elementary School. Afterword: Dwelling on Making.

Details ISBN0367502453 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2020 ISBN-10 0367502453 ISBN-13 9780367502454 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2020-11-19 Pages 216 UK Release Date 2020-11-19 Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2020-11-19 NZ Release Date 2020-11-19 Author Jennifer Rowsell Subtitle Learning and Playing Through Modes and Media Edited by Jennifer Rowsell Illustrations 4 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, black and white; 52 Halftones, black and white; 57 Illustrations, black and white Alternative 9780367502461 DEWEY 371.33 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this

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