supervisor: chandan dasgupta
Topic
Making is characterized by continuous navigation through uncertainty. Engaging in making activities and working collaboratively in makerspaces with technology afford knowledge sharing and collaborative creative production. Thus, in this setting, creativity can be viewed as a collaborative effort that is distributed across the group and is facilitated via interactions between people and materials available for making as they navigate through uncertainties during the making process.
In this project, we will investigate the emergence of creativity during collaborative making in makerspaces, the nature of uncertainties faced by the students (makers), and how these uncertainties play a role in fostering creativity.
Method
In this study, we will use video-recordings of students who work on a group project. In addition, we will collect data using surveys and questionnaires, self-reports, reflection journals (if available), and student interviews. You can choose to focus on undergraduate or school students.
References
Halverson, E. R., & Sheridan, K. (2014). The maker movement in education. Harvard Educational Review, 84(4), 495-504.
Gravel, B. E., & Svihla, V. (2021). Fostering heterogeneous engineering through whole-class design work. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 30(2), 279-329.