Learning Environments for Invention Pedagogy

Invention pedagogy requires learning environments that enable the creative activities of inventing and making in schools. Such environments include physical, virtual, and epistemic-social environments and related pedagogical conditions, which all need to be addressed when designing spaces and places for invention pedagogy. This chapter presents the ongoing co-development process of the Innokas FabLearn Labs, in which a network of technology-oriented and development-oriented teachers co-created a flexible and modifiable concept for designing a multipurposed learning environment. Through the framework of pedagogical infrastructures, the chapter illustrates how the essential underlying pedagogical conditions, i.e., epistemological, scaffolding, social, and material-technological infrastructures, were addressed in the development work to create well-functioning makerspaces in formal education. In addition, future directions for the development of the concept are provided.