Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classroom

A novel approach to STEAM learning that engages students from historically marginalized communities in culturally relevant and inclusive maker education.

The growing maker movement in education has become an integral part of both STEM and STEAM learning, tapping into the natural DIY inclinations of creative people as well as the educational power of inventing or making things. And yet African American, Latino/a American, and Indigenous people are underrepresented in maker culture and educati...