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The Ontario Makerspace Project

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In this introductory chapter, we provide an overview of a 2-year research project in Ontario, Canada, with 60 teachers in 20 schools. We share a brief history of the maker movement and discuss how the intersection of constructionism and critical making informed the design, development and operation of makerspaces that took various forms in the different schools. We provide a description of the research design used in the study and give a brief overview of the study findings, which are then discussed in more detail in subsequent chapters.

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Hughes, J., Dobos, L. (2022). The Ontario Makerspace Project. In: Hughes, J. (eds) Making, Makers, Makerspaces. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09819-2_1

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