Share Paper: Sheltered-in-Place Considerations for Science Teacher Educators Interested in Educative Making

  1. Christina Taylor, University of Northern Colorado, United States
  2. Jennifer Parrish, University of Northern Colorado, United States
  3. David Slykhuis, University of Northern Colorado, United States
Monday, October 26 3:30-3:45 PM Room 4

Abstract: This descriptive brief paper is an abbreviated report about a larger autoethnographic study written by the first author as a post-doctoral research associate working in educative making as part of an NSF grant for which the goal is to attract a diverse population to the career path of mechatronics. Teleworking from home under shelter-in-place orders, she employed the methodology of reflexive embodied autoethnography with applied sensibilities to investigate the cultural experience of her two semesters as a participant observer who built a new university Makerspace in the USA and supported its use by undergraduate science education preservice teachers. Sans the ...