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Of Women Tech Pioneers and Tiny Experts of Ingenuity

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dc.contributor Háskóli Íslands
dc.contributor University of Iceland
dc.contributor.author Kjartansdóttir, Skúlína Hlíf
dc.contributor.author Hjartarson, Torfi
dc.contributor.author Pétursdóttir, Svava
dc.date.accessioned 2020-09-07T15:41:45Z
dc.date.available 2020-09-07T15:41:45Z
dc.date.issued 2020-09-04
dc.identifier.citation Kjartansdóttir SH, Hjartarson T and Pétursdóttir S (2020) Of Women Tech Pioneers and Tiny Experts of Ingenuity. Front. Educ. 5:160. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2020.00160
dc.identifier.issn 2504-284X
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2050
dc.description.abstract This paper presents findings from a collective case study focusing on the efforts of a grassroots team of seven pioneering women: teachers, IT consultants, and tech enthusiasts. The team was formed to introduce, encourage, and establish makerspaces in the Icelandic compulsory school system by educating and supporting teachers and young students (6–15 years) as makers and advocates of maker culture. All seven team members have developed or supported different models of makerspaces in their area of work and offered guidance to other educators. Our research examines learning on a personal, relational, and institutional level, reviewing values and practices of participants and what characterizes their social interactions, agency and empowerment in relation to making. It introduces new models of pedagogy, often supported by school leadership and social media action facilitating the development of making and maker culture. It attempts to map how makerspaces can be integrated into school practice in alignment with curricular objectives to support diverse engagements, digital literacies and creative design skills. Our findings further reveal how an all-women team has taken agency and through collaborative actions, collective creativity and self-empowerment managed to overcome challenges and provide leadership in this emergent field in Icelandic school practice.
dc.description.sponsorship This research was partly funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Programme, Grant No: 734720.
dc.format.extent 160
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Frontiers Media SA
dc.relation info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/734720
dc.relation.ispartofseries Frontiers in Education;5:160
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject Makerspaces at school
dc.subject Cross-disciplinary learning
dc.subject Agency
dc.subject Collaboration
dc.subject Collective creativity
dc.subject Technological literacy
dc.subject Gender and makerspaces
dc.subject Empowerment
dc.subject Nýsköpunarsmiðja
dc.subject Tæknimennt
dc.subject Valdefling
dc.title Of Women Tech Pioneers and Tiny Experts of Ingenuity
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dcterms.license CC BY 4.0
dc.description.version Peer Reviewed
dc.identifier.journal Frontiers in Education
dc.identifier.doi 10.3389/feduc.2020.00160
dc.relation.url https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feduc.2020.00160/full
dc.contributor.school Menntavísindasvið (HÍ)
dc.contributor.school School of education (UI)


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