This page brings together key scholarly articles and books on makerspace education, critical making, digital fabrication, and related fields. Resources are organized by theme to help you navigate the literature. Where available, links to access each article are provided.
23 resources across 6 themes
6 articles
Critical making: Exploring the use of making as a generative tool.
Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 13(3), 227–248.
Critical making in the age of AI.
Amherst College Press.
Critical making and interdisciplinary learning: Making as a bridge between art, science, engineering and social interventions.
In The critical makers reader: (Un)learning technology (pp. 17–28).
Conversations in critical making.
CTheory, 7.
The art of critical making: Rhode Island School of Design on creative practice.
John Wiley & Sons.
Using DDMT teaching model to cultivate critical thinking in a STEAM classroom.
In International Congress on Education and Technology in Sciences (pp. 47–57). Springer.
9 articles
Learning in the making: A comparative case study of three makerspaces.
Harvard Educational Review, 84(4), 505–531.
The maker movement in education.
Harvard Educational Review, 84(4), 495–504.
The pedagogical makerspace: Learning opportunity and challenge for prospective teachers' growth of TPACK.
British Journal of Educational Technology, 55, 1–23.
Higher-order thinking in a makerspace.
In Teaching 21st Century Skills: Using STEM Makerspace (pp. 77–104). Springer Singapore.
Children's visualization and collaboration in a STEM makerspace: Opportunities for fostering sustainability awareness.
Sustainability, 17(5), 2014.
Materials‐to‐develop‐with: The making of a makerspace.
British Journal of Educational Technology, 50(1), 280–293.
Makerspaces in primary school settings: Advancing 21st century and STEM capabilities using 3D design and printing.
Making sense of making: Critical issues in the integration of maker education into schools.
Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 28(3), 317–328.
Making learners: A framework for evaluating making in STEM education.
Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning, 12(2).
3 articles
Digital fabrication and 'making' in education: The democratization of invention.
In C. Büching & J. Walter-Herrmann (Eds.), FabLab (pp. 203–222). transcript Verlag.
Teaching with physical computing in school: The case of the Micro:bit.
Education and Information Technologies, 25(4), 2577–2603.
Unveiling maker mindsets: A journey of formation and transformation through design thinking-making pedagogy within a lesson study context.
Frontiers in Education, 9, 1343492.
2 articles
Print-and-play: Data physicalization methods for research analysis in technical communication.
In Proceedings of the 41st ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (pp. 1–9). ACM.
Getting a grip on tangible interaction: A framework on physical space and social interaction.
In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 437–446). ACM.
1 article
Thinking through craft.
Bloomsbury Publishing.
2 articles
The role of critical reflection in teacher education.
School-University Partnerships, 4(1), 101–113.
Assessing student learning in a guided inquiry-based maker learning environment: Knowledge representation from the expertise development perspective.
Educational Technology Research and Development, 72(1), 305–327.
