Educational makerspaces have now been established in many Norwegian schools. Makerspace initiators promote active learning by using new and traditional materials, tools and technologies in creative activities. Arts and crafts (A&C) education shares many ideas with makerspaces, inviting pupils to explorative interaction through material engagement that promotes multiple ways of knowing. In this study, we examined primary school pupils’ explorative interaction with materiality in Norwegian educational makerspaces from an A&C education perspective. We conducted semi‐structured interviews with teachers in seven schools, asking about their practices. We also observed teachers and pupils engaging in makerspace activities in four of these schools. Our interviews revealed that science teachers have completed the crucial groundwork of initiating the building of makerspaces in Norwegian schools. We found that the teachers were highly motivated to use new materials, adding new dimensions of making for the pupils, but the materials and technologies could be utilised more constructively and exploratively and in more open‐ended processes. Science and A&C teachers could benefit from closer collaboration, developing and implementing co‐creative and explorative aspects of traditional and new materials, tools and technologies in makerspace activities. We argue that including A&C could bring new creative potential into makerspace activities, allowing pupils to craft with materials through artistic, sensorial and explorative dimensions of materiality more extensively than they currently do.

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从工艺美术教育的角度看挪威小学创客空间与物质性的探索性互动


现在，许多挪威学校都建立了教育创客空间。创客空间发起者通过在创意活动中使用新的和传统的材料、工具和技术来促进主动学习。艺术和手工艺 （A&C） 教育与创客空间有许多共同的想法，邀请学生通过促进多种认知方式的材料参与进行探索性互动。在这项研究中，我们从 A&C 教育的角度考察了挪威教育创客空间中小学生与物质性的探索性互动。我们对 7 所学校的教师进行了半结构化访谈，询问他们的做法。我们还观察到其中四所学校的教师和学生参与创客空间活动。我们的访谈显示，科学教师已经完成了在挪威学校开始建设创客空间的关键基础工作。我们发现，教师使用新材料的积极性很高，为学生增加了新的制作维度，但这些材料和技术可以更有建设性和探索性地利用，并以更开放的方式进行。科学和空调教师可以从更紧密的合作中受益，在创客空间活动中开发和实施传统和新材料、工具和技术的共同创造和探索方面。我们认为，包括 A&C 可以为创客空间活动带来新的创造潜力，让学生能够比现在更广泛地通过物质性的艺术、感官和探索维度来使用材料进行制作。