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Intentionally Cultivating Diverse Community for Radically Open Access Makerspaces
(Higher Education Makerspaces Initiative (HEMI), 2018-08)
Academic makerspaces which are discipline-agnostic face the daunting task of trying to meet the needs of a humbling array of approaches to inquiry while maintaining a sustainable and safe environment for making. Establishing ...
Scaling the DIY Approach: Do-It-Together with Student Service Learning
(Higher Education Makerspaces Initiative (HEMI), 2017-09)
This paper endeavors to reflectively analyze the process of building a fleet of large, durable tables with student workers’ labor, primarily using the tools in our FabLab. Exploring causalities between experiences gained ...
REOPENING THE TEMPLE SCHOOL: REFORMING CONTEMPORARY EDUCATION WITH THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS
(2021-05-03)
A conversation surrounding reform in American education has been in play for two centuries. In 1834, Bronson Alcott’s Temple School challenged traditional modes of education with his conversational approach in the classroom. ...
“I HOPE YOU ARE NOT BEING STUPID ABOUT CHILDREN”: TRANSFORMING LITERATURE PEDAGOGY THROUGH CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
(2024-01-05)
In this dissertation, I assert that children’s literature is particularly productive for making the literature classroom a more engaging space for students in any genre or historical period of literature taught because it ...