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Impacts of Maker Education-Design Thinking Integration on Knowledge, Creative Tendencies, and Perceptions of the Engineering Profession
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Wei Xu; Jia-Chen Chen; Ye-feng Lou; Hang Chen – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2024
Maker education can enhance learners' creativity. Design thinking can facilitate the innovative resolution of complex problems. The design thinking literature and most maker teaching modes are limited in their promotion of learning and ability development in various dimensions. Learners have stereotypes about some professions; interventions can…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Cooperative Learning, Problem Based Learning, Student Projects
Ready and Waiting: How Cambodian Primary Students' Self-Perceived Skills and Aspirations Are Primed for the Field of Engineering
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Szmodis, Whitney E.; Bodzin, Alec – Electronic Journal of Science Education, 2018
A project-based engineering education unit was implemented in a primary school in Cambodia. An effectiveness study was conducted to investigate students' attitudes and expectations of engineering as a profession and students' self-perceived 21st century skills. The findings revealed that prior to the curriculum implementation both male and female…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Self Concept, Engineering Education