Kinderen en jongeren leren niet alleen op school, maar ook daarbuiten. Informele leeromgevingen kunnen ‘het verschil maken’ voor hun ontwikkeling, niet alleen door scholing van kennis en vaardigheden, maar ook als plaats waar jeugdigen nieuwe sociale rollen kunnen ervaren en hun identiteit ontwikkelen. …

Maker education offers opportunities to stimulate the creativity of young people in various types of education. How to guide these learning processes, however, is an unexplored area for the supervisors (teachers and librarians). In the research-project presented, a professional learning community of …

Maker spaces are generally regarded as a valuable innovation in comparison to traditional education, although it is largely unclear what is exactly learned. This deficiency hampers the deployment of maker spaces, particularly their embedding and integration in the existing practice in formal education. …

Learning activities in a makerspace are hands-on and characterized by design and inquiry. Evaluation is needed both for learners and their coaches in order to effectively guide the learning process of the children and for feedback on the effectiveness of the after-school maker activities. Due to its …