1 Introduction
Numerous studies in Maker Education (ME) underscore the significance of fostering Maker Mindsets (MM) for students’ cognitive, affective, and behavioral development (Iversen et al., 2015; Smith et al., 2015; Regalla, 2016; Flores, 2018). However, concerns have been raised by researchers, such as Blikstein and Worsley (2016), and Kim and Zimmerman (2017) indicated that current ME practices often lack structure and standardization, impeding the internalization of students’ MM.
In response to these concerns and aligning with other researchers (Christensen et al., 2016; Gözen, 2016; Jeng et al., 2020), we propose the integration of Design Thinking (DT) into ME, creating what we term DT-making pedagogy (DTMP). DT provides a structured project management process that emphasizes student ideas from project inception to completion (Veldhuis et al., 2021), potentially…
