In this episode I unpack Vossoughi, Hooper, and Escudé’s (2016) publication titled “Making through the lens of culture and power: Toward transformative visions for educational equity,” which provides a critique of maker culture discourse in order to "reconceptualize the educational practice of making in ways that place equity at the center" (p. 215).

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00:00 Intro

00:48 Abstract

01:54 My single sentence summary

02:10 A sample of what kinds of questions the authors are asking

03:24 Paper introduction

05:35 Maker culture can assume deficits

07:29 Siloing in education

08:20 When maker culture reinforces inequalities

11:31 Maker practices and pedagogies can occur anywhere

13:14 Can you use direct instruction with maker pedagogies?

15:07 Suggestions for equity-oriented design

15:49 Lingering questions + thoughts

15:54 How might we as a field critically reflect on and discuss biases within practices or philosophies that are commonplace or generally unquestioned within CS education?

16:59 How might we use some of the equity-oriented makerspace pedagogies without unintentionally positioning kids or communities within a deficit ideology?

17:30 In what ways might CS educators encourage CS-related practices already engaged with by the communities we work with?

18:02 Outro