Educating for World-Making in Makerspaces

This symposium gathers the results from several different research projects conducted in maker education in Finland and Norway.Educational makerspaces, in connection to school premises, offer multiple possibilities for students to take part in world-making -quite concretely.The enthusiastic and participatory approach inherited from the maker-movement meets the more static frames of our formal education systems, shaking them up in a good way.When given open-ended design tasks related to real-world problems in the form of projectsbased learning, students are encouraged to acknowledge their role in the preferred "futuring" of their own worlds, their personal beliefs and wishes, their home environment, their school or their local neighborhoods.Research results will be presented and discussed by educational researchers, who have studied how maker-centered practices can educate for personal growth, creativity, innovation, citizenship, equity and participatory democracy -all skills and abilities in the important work of world-making for a better future.