Dickens, M., & Jordan, S. S., & Lande, M. (2016, June), Parents and Roles in Informal Making Education: Informing and Implications for Making in Museums  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.25854

\bibitem{asee_peer_25854}
  Dickens, M., \& Jordan, S. S., \& Lande, M. (2016, June), \emph{Parents and Roles in Informal Making Education: Informing and Implications for Making in Museums}
  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  10.18260/p.25854

Matthew Dickens, Shawn S. Jordan, and Micah Lande.  "Parents and Roles in Informal Making Education: Informing and Implications for Making in Museums".  2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2016.  https://peer.asee.org/25854 Internet.  25 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_25854}
  Matthew Dickens, Shawn S. Jordan, and Micah Lande.
  "Parents and Roles in Informal Making Education: Informing and Implications for Making in Museums".
  \emph{2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2016.
  https://peer.asee.org/25854 Internet.  25 Apr, 2024

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AB  - Making is becoming a popular activity for young people to get interested in STEM topics. Maker Faire events and extracurricular making clubs support this engagement. Informal science education, particularly through science and technology centers have been adopting making activities for floor programs and some have created maker spaces. This study explores how museums, and in particular children’s museums, incorporate making for young makers and families and how educational learning objectives match up with the attributes of making and values expressed by maker families. This will be addressed by both qualitative analysis of ongoing interviews with Young Makers and the parents of Young Makers. Emergent thematic analysis is be used to highlight themes relevant to Maker families working together. Additionally, this work will explore the goals and practices of informal science education museum community and establish a baseline and range of Making activities and makerspaces in childrens’ museums. Data has been collected over the last 3 years from the New York and Bay Area flagship Maker Faires with sets of interviews with approximately 32 Young Makers and the parents of Young Makers. The particular perspective of Maker families and the associated analysis has not been previously done and this study will allow for exploration of what it means to be a Maker family.
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