Recognition in makerspaces: Supporting opportunities for women to “make” a STEM career

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Highlights:

• Recognition plays a vital role in STEM learning and pathway development.

• Honoring women's STEM expertise can counteract their turning away from STEM.

• Constructionism has underspecified how sharing can cultivate recognition.

• Displaying, legitimizing, and circulating expertise can foster recognition.

• Personally meaningful artifacts produce and display growing expertise.

摘要

•Recognition plays a vital role in STEM learning and pathway development.•Honoring women's STEM expertise can counteract their turning away from STEM.•Constructionism has underspecified how sharing can cultivate recognition.•Displaying, legitimizing, and circulating expertise can foster recognition.•Personally meaningful artifacts produce and display growing expertise.

论文关键词:Makerspace,Constructionism,Engineering,Education,STEM,Gender gap

论文评审过程:Received 1 May 2018, Revised 12 February 2019, Accepted 9 May 2019, Available online 16 May 2019, Version of Record 11 July 2019.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.05.013