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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Amy Corbett
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Metropolitan Family Service
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Metropolitan Family Service
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Catherine Wagner
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University of Notre Dame
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10.13140/RG.2.2.19143.16803
Funders
NSF
Funding Program:
EngEd-Engineering Education
Award Number:
1930848
Funding Amount:
$399,371.00
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