Understanding Equity of Access in Engineering Education Making Spaces

The goal of our exploratory study was to examine how management and staff in engineering education making spaces are enacting equitable access amongst their users (e.g., students). We examined six different making space types categorized by Wilczynsky’s and Hoover’s classification of academic makers...

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Published in:	Social Sciences
Main Authors:	Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, Robert Jamaal Downey, Louis Nadelson, Yoon Ha Choi, Jana Bouwma-Gearhart, Chaz Tanoue
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2021-10-01
Subjects:	access equity makerspaces engineering making spaces
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/10/10/384

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