Education innovation through material innovation in primary education : the grow-it-yourself workshop
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- Lore Brosens (UGent) and Marina Emmanouil (UGent)
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- Abstract
- In recent years more STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) topics have been incorporated in mainstream public education. Although the benefits of STEM instruction are broadly recognised in secondary school curricula, STEM topics in primary education are rather limited, leaving a gap in manipulative skills building and in preparation processes for the next school level. This paper reflects on the outcomes of a design workshop attended by 12 primary school students (9 to 12 years old) in Belgium. Mycelium, a fungi-based natural material now used in innovative sustainable applications, served as a means to introduce early learners engineering basics through self-made learning tools. Students grew their own 3-D structures to build a 'Grow-It-Yourself biodegradable playground using mycelium as a primary source. The paper stems from an in-progress research that investigates the opportunities of how mycelium as a material innovation can be used as a medium to create innovation in primary education through a learning-by-design approach. Reflections on the workshop's instructional guidelines are included along with an extension of the call for support for primary school teachers delivering STEM topics in their classes.
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- learning by doing/design, STE(A)M-education, primary education, creativity, workshop guidelines, sustainability, mycelium, DESIGN THINKING, SCIENCE
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8644168
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- Brosens, Lore, and Marina Emmanouil. “Education Innovation through Material Innovation in Primary Education : The Grow-It-Yourself Workshop.” DS 95 : Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2019), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. 12th -13th September 2019, edited by Erik Bohemia et al., The Design Society - Institution of Engineering Designers, 2019, doi:10.35199/epde2019.39.
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- Brosens, L., & Emmanouil, M. (2019). Education innovation through material innovation in primary education : the grow-it-yourself workshop. In E. Bohemia, A. Kovacevic, L. Buck, R. Brisco, D. Evans, H. Grierson, … R. I. Whitfield (Eds.), DS 95 : Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2019), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. 12th -13th September 2019. https://doi.org/10.35199/epde2019.39
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- Brosens, Lore, and Marina Emmanouil. 2019. “Education Innovation through Material Innovation in Primary Education : The Grow-It-Yourself Workshop.” In DS 95 : Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2019), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. 12th -13th September 2019, edited by Erik Bohemia, Ahmed Kovacevic, Lyndon Buck, Ross Brisco, Dorothy Evans, Hilary Grierson, William Ion, and Robert Ian Whitfield. The Design Society - Institution of Engineering Designers. https://doi.org/10.35199/epde2019.39.
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- Brosens, Lore, and Marina Emmanouil. 2019. “Education Innovation through Material Innovation in Primary Education : The Grow-It-Yourself Workshop.” In DS 95 : Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2019), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. 12th -13th September 2019, ed by. Erik Bohemia, Ahmed Kovacevic, Lyndon Buck, Ross Brisco, Dorothy Evans, Hilary Grierson, William Ion, and Robert Ian Whitfield. The Design Society - Institution of Engineering Designers. doi:10.35199/epde2019.39.
- Vancouver
- 1.Brosens L, Emmanouil M. Education innovation through material innovation in primary education : the grow-it-yourself workshop. In: Bohemia E, Kovacevic A, Buck L, Brisco R, Evans D, Grierson H, et al., editors. DS 95 : Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2019), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow 12th -13th September 2019. The Design Society - Institution of Engineering Designers; 2019.
- IEEE
- [1]L. Brosens and M. Emmanouil, “Education innovation through material innovation in primary education : the grow-it-yourself workshop,” in DS 95 : Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2019), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. 12th -13th September 2019, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, 2019.
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author = {{Brosens, Lore and Emmanouil, Marina}},
booktitle = {{DS 95 : Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2019), University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. 12th -13th September 2019}},
editor = {{Bohemia, Erik and Kovacevic, Ahmed and Buck, Lyndon and Brisco, Ross and Evans, Dorothy and Grierson, Hilary and Ion, William and Whitfield, Robert Ian}},
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language = {{eng}},
location = {{University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK}},
pages = {{6}},
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title = {{Education innovation through material innovation in primary education : the grow-it-yourself workshop}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.35199/epde2019.39}},
year = {{2019}},
}
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