A Framework Characterizing How School Librarians Facilitate Informal Making Activities

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 19
  In Roundtable Session: Designing Learning in Libraries

Abstract

This paper presents a framework for characterizing how school librarians facilitate STEM-rich Making informal programming in their libraries. This framework is an extension of a framework used in teacher education research accounting for how teachers using the same curriculum have varying enactments in their individual classrooms. A case study of three middle school librarians are presented to examine how each librarian used STEM-rich Making instructional materials to facilitate informal STEM-rich Making activities for the students in their libraries and how their various program facilitation approaches helped to inform our extended framework.

Authors

• Aubrey Rogowski, Utah State University

• Mimi M. Recker, Utah State University

• Victor R. Lee, Stanford University

• Kristin Anne Searle, Utah State University