Many of today's educational organizations around the world contend with complex challenges. Yet, longstanding practices and norms in educational systems can hamper educators' abilities to identify and address these challenges, such as only principals leading change efforts or the use of misaligned "quick fixes" for ill-defined…

There is growing interest in reenergizing SoTL as a public scholarship that engages civic conversational spaces and debates about our most pressing public issues (Chick, 2019; Friberg, 2020). In the COVID landscape, debates on re- forming higher education -- often foreclosed within our neoliberal university contexts (Giroux, 2014, 2017) --…

Making and makerspaces are becoming increasingly popular in K-12 schools. However, professional development on making for practicing teachers is under researched. We present case studies of two teachers' sensemaking of making in a one semester graduate course on teaching and learning in makerspaces. The course was designed around three course…

This exploratory case study reports findings on 20 middle-level science and mathematics teachers' perceptions of the effectiveness of a one-year project in which teachers engaged in using robotics and engineering design inquiries in their classrooms. Principled by Bandura's Social Learning Theory (SLT) and using mixed methods approaches, the study…

Starting in early childhood, children are capable of learning sophisticated science and engineering concepts and engage in disciplinary practices. They are deeply curious about the world around them and eager to investigate the many questions they have about their environment. Educators can develop learning environments that support the…

Through active learning classrooms (ALCs), faculty can rethink and redesign their courses to include more inquiry-driven activities and experiences for students. This case study describes one large public institution's evidence-based and iterative design process for new and redesigned learning spaces. Critical elements include a cross-campus…

This article articulates the experience of three professors from different disciplines, teaching at three levels of University Studies, Portland State University's general education program, for whom the toggling between personal/professional critical practices and use of reflective practices in the classroom has led to transformative learning…

For the forty-second time, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two volumes. Volume 1 contains papers dealing…