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Article of Volume 15, Issue 3, September 2020

Bringing maker practices to school: tracing discursive and materially mediated aspects of student teams’ collaborative making processes

Authors: Sini Riikonen, Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Kai Hakkarainen

Abstract: The present investigation aimed to analyze the collaborative making processes and ways of organizing collaboration processes of five student teams. As a part of regular school work, the seventh-grade students were engaged in the use of traditional and digital fabrication technologies for inventing, designing, and making artifacts. To analyze complex, longitudinal collaborative making processes, we developed the visual Making-Process-Rug video analysis method, which enabled tracing intertwined with social-discursive and materially mediated making processes and zoomed in on the teams’ efforts to organize their collaborative processes. The results indicated that four of the five teams were able to take on multifaceted epistemic and fabrication-related challenges and come up with novel co-inventions. The successful teams’ social-discursive and embodied making actions supported each another. These teams dealt with the complexity of invention challenges by spending a great deal of their time in model making and digital experimentation, and their making process progressed iteratively. The development of adequate co-invention and well-organized collaboration processes appeared to be anchored in the team’s shared epistemic object.

Keywords: Co-invention, Collaborative making, Epistemic object, Knowledge-creating learning, Sociomateriality, Teamwork

Citation: Riikonen, S., P. Seitamaa-Hakkarainen & Hakkarainen, K. (2020) Bringing maker practices to school: tracing discursive and materially mediated aspects of student teams’ collaborative making processes. ijcscl 15 (3), pp. 319-349

DOI: 10.1007/s11412-020-09330-6

Preprint: Acrobat-PDF riikonen_seitamaa-hakkarainen_hakkarainen_15_3.pdf

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