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Full Steam Ahead: Building Preservice Teachers’ Capacity In Makerspace Pedagogies, Janette Hughes, Jennifer Laffler, Ami Mamolo, Laura Morrison, Diana Petrarca

Outcomes in Higher Education

This paper explores teacher candidates’ understandings of 1) makerspace/constructionist pedagogies; 2) the issue of bullying; and, 3) working with at-risk youth, as they evolved over the course of a six-month partnership. The partnership included researchers and teacher candidates at a Faculty of Education and the teacher librarian at a local elementary school who were participating in a larger Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)- funded project that focuses on building, implementing and evaluating an effective model for a school improvement program that increases teachers’ capacity, experience and specific fluency and expertise with technologies supporting STEAM learning and …