{"id":11316,"date":"2015-11-03T19:32:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T19:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/most-self-identified-makers-to-be-blunt-are\/"},"modified":"2015-11-03T19:32:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T19:32:12","slug":"most-self-identified-makers-to-be-blunt-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/most-self-identified-makers-to-be-blunt-are\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Most self-identified makers, to be blunt, are highly educated white men. \u201cIt\u2019s something that we\u2019re very concerned about and grappling with,\u201d said Edward Clapp, a maker education researcher at Harvard\u2019s Graduate School of Education. \u201cIt\u2019s important that maker-centered learning not be directed toward any one particular type of individual, which includes gender, social class, race, or different subject areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This lack of diversity within the maker movement has had a trickle-down effect on the objects they choose to make\u200a\u2014\u200aand consequently, what is prized within the community. \u201cYes, \u2018maker\u2019 can mean robots and programming Arduinos, but it can also mean quilting and pickle-making and crochet,\u201d Clapp said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to be so narrow and we don\u2019t want to exclude any type of making because it is more about a curiosity-based approach to learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/bright\/who-is-a-maker-603aca72118f\">Who Is a Maker? \u2014 Bright \u2014 Medium by Jessica Carew Kraft<br \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most self-identified makers, to be blunt, are highly educated white men. \u201cIt\u2019s something that we\u2019re very concerned about and grappling with,\u201d said Edward Clapp, a maker education researcher at Harvard\u2019s Graduate School of Education. \u201cIt\u2019s important that maker-centered learning not be directed toward any one particular type of individual, which includes gender, social class, race, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2Ww","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}