Shifts of epistemic agency between children and parents during making at museum-based makerspace

作     者：Jung, Yong Ju Whalen, Devon Purington Zimmerman, Heather Toomey 

作者机构：Univ Oklahoma Sch Lib & Informat Studies 401 W BrooksRoom 120 Norman OK 73019 USA Penn State Univ Learning Design & Technol Program University Pk PA 16802 USA 

出 版 物：《INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENCE EDUCATION PART B-COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT》 (国际科学教育杂志，B辑：交流与公众参与)

年 卷 期：2023年第13卷第1期

页      面：1-17页

学科分类：0401[教育学-教育学] 04[教育学] 

基　　金：Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation of the National Museum of American History 

主　　题：Epistemic agency makerspace family learning informal learning interaction analysis 

摘      要：Epistemic agency is situated within social, cultural, and material contexts of learning. Making and inventing supports children s and families creative thinking, problem-solving, and knowledge construction, through which they are positioned as active knowledge agents and their epistemic agency is represented. This article examines how the epistemic agency of children and parents shifted as they engaged in making activities in a museum-based makerspace. Through video-based, multimodal interaction analysis of thirteen cases, our findings demonstrate moment-by-moment transition patterns between child-led, parent-led, and equally-distributed epistemic agency. Our findings also show how these epistemic agency shifts emerged through the families embodied interactions. By doing so, we reveal that (a) the lead epistemic agent role shifted over time during the inventing experience and (b) the epistemic agency of a parent and a child were relative to each other. This study contributes to the theoretical understanding of epistemic agency in situ during collaborative making activities as a fluid phenomenon as well as provides practical implications for museum-based makerspaces to support parent-child knowledge-building interactions during inventing.