Making Space for the Women: Exploring Female Engineering Student Narratives of Engagement in Makerspaces

Lam, Christina K.; Cruz, Samantha; Kellam, Nadia; Coley, Brooke

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“…Perhaps further limiting engagement, is the social construction of making and makerspaces as masculine (Meyer 2018), or perhaps even more so, the discipline of engineering itself (Hatmaker 2013;McIlwee and Robinson 1992). Even with these cultural barriers, through, women do engage; however, women choosing to engage in making likely face gender bias and unfair expectations about their abilities (Lam et al (2019), as well as benevolent and hostile sexism (Tomko et al 2021).…”

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How do you play that makerspace game? An ethnographic exploration of the habitus of engineering makerspaces

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Drawing upon Bourdieu’s conceptualization of habitus, this ethnographic study explores the cultural bases guiding engineering makerspaces at a public university in the United States. Students carry forms of capital that impact their entry into these learning spaces, over time becoming disciplined in the “game” of makerspaces as they accumulate capital through everyday talk and storytelling. Communication constructs the makerspace habitus as students (1) move from outsider to insider as they acquire forms of capital; (2) negotiate a habitus characterized by tensions of access vs. exclusivity; (3) learn to use the vocabularies of innovation and creativity; and (4) cultivate supportive making communities. Findings point to the critical role of intentional communication and space design in cultivating inclusive makerspace cultures.

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How do you play that makerspace game? An ethnographic exploration of the habitus of engineering makerspaces

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“…Our hope is that this work can help managers and directors of makerspaces in higher education create more inclusive makerspaces. In our work, we have found that engaging in makerspaces promotes agency and engineering identity for Black male undergraduates [10] and increased confidence and opportunities to learn for female undergraduate students [11]. In addition, we found that the recommendations that students make for improving makerspaces differ as women and men who belong to underrepresented groups tend to suggest more social changes and majority men request more equipment [12].…”

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“…This heteronormative culture resulted in Black men not realizing their agency and development of their engineering identity as well as other Black men who engaged in the makerspaces at a Minority Serving Institution (MSI). Lam, Cruz, Kellam, and Coley found that female students perceived gender bias within the makerspaces that, in some cases, resulted in an intimidating, hostile, and non-inclusive environment [11]. Even in spite of these negative findings, some female students also experienced increased confidence and learning opportunities when engaging in makerspaces.…”

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Promising Practices that Promote Inclusivity at University-affiliated Makerspaces within Schools of Engineering

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2021 CoNECD Proceedings

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ASU). She is a qualitative researcher who primarily uses narrative research methods and is interested more broadly in interpretive research methods. In her research, Dr. Kellam is broadly interested in developing critical understandings of the culture of engineering education and, especially, the experiences of underrepresented undergraduate engineering students and engineering educators. In addition to teaching undergraduate engineering courses and a graduate course on entrepreneurship, she also enjoys teaching qualitative research methods in engineering education in the Engineering Education Systems and Design PhD program at ASU.

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Broadening Participation: 21st Century Opportunities for Amateurs in Biology Research

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Integrative and Comparative Biology

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The modern field of biology has its roots in the curiosity and skill of amateur researchers and has never been purely the domain of professionals. Today, professionals and amateurs contribute to biology research, working both together and independently. Well-targeted and holistic investment in amateur biology research could bring a range of benefits that, in addition to positive societal benefits, may help to address the considerable challenges facing our planet in the 21st century. We highlight how recent advances in amateur biology have been facilitated by innovations in digital infrastructure as well as the development of community biology laboratories, launched over the last decade, and we provide recommendations for how individuals can support the integration of amateurs into biology research. The benefits of investment in amateur biology research could be many-fold, however without a clear consideration of equity, efforts to promote amateur biology could exacerbate structural inequalities around access to and benefits from STEM. The future of the field of biology relies on integrating a diversity of perspectives and approaches—amateur biology researchers have an important role to play.

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Making Space for the Women: Exploring Female Engineering Student Narratives of Engagement in Makerspaces

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

How do you play that makerspace game? An ethnographic exploration of the habitus of engineering makerspaces

How do you play that makerspace game? An ethnographic exploration of the habitus of engineering makerspaces

Promising Practices that Promote Inclusivity at University-affiliated Makerspaces within Schools of Engineering

Broadening Participation: 21st Century Opportunities for Amateurs in Biology Research

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