April 2nd, 2022 | RESEARCH
In collaboration with Metropolitan Family Service (MFS), we conducted a three-year design-based research study to better understand how the characteristics of hands-on, home-based family engineering activities influence how preschool-age children and their parents engage in the engineering design process. Four themes emerged from the study: (1) Families used their imagination and activity narrative elements to set the design context, (2) Families evaluated and revised their solutions based on imagination-driven constraints, (3) Families creatively modified the design space, and (4) Imaginative play fostered user-centered design.
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Team Members
Scott Pattison, Author, TERC Inc.Gina Navoa Svarovsky, Author, University of Notre Dame
Amy Corbett, Author, Metropolitan Family Service
Maria Eugenia Perdomo, Author, Metropolitan Family Service
Smirla Ramos-Montañez, Author, TERC, Inc.
Catherine Wagner, Author, University of Notre Dame
Viviana López Burgos, Author, Independent Consultant
Sabrina De Los Santos, Author, TERC Inc.
Citation
Identifier Type: DOI
Identifier: 10.13140/RG.2.2.19143.16803
Funders
Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: EngEd-Engineering Education
Award Number: 1930848
Funding Amount: $399,371.00
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Access and Inclusion: English Language Learners | Ethnic | Racial | Hispanic | Latinx Communities
Audience: Educators | Teachers | Families | Learning Researchers | Museum | ISE Professionals | Parents | Caregivers | Pre-K Children (0-5)
Discipline: Education and learning science | Engineering
Resource Type: Conference Proceedings | Research Products
Environment Type: Informal | Formal Connections | Pre-K | Early Childhood Programs