Overview
- Presents a detailed look across the STEM-to-STEAM arena, from K12 through country-wide conversion efforts
- Ties in with the accelerating interest in STEM to STEAM conversions in education
- Offers leading-edge information to deal with the need for methods and people to meld approaches into solutions for major problems
Part of the book series: Environmental Discourses in Science Education (EDSE, volume 5)
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Table of contents(19 chapters)
Keywords
- Converting STEM Programs to STEAM Programs
- STEM education
- conventional STEM-education objectives
- cross-disciplinary expertise
- Encouraging the arts in STEM programs
- ways of envisioning complex problems
- cross-disciplinary expertise in research-team
- scientists with cross-disciplinary expertise
- cross-disciplinary education
- STEAM science education
- workforce with creative thinking
- problem-solving skills
- teaching creative thinking
- Integrating the Arts into STEM Curriculum
- Project-Based Learning to Teach STEAM
- Developing STEAM Curricula
- Arts Involvement in the classroom
- Arts in Science Teaching
- STEM policy
- Science education reform
About this book
This book examines the push and pull of factors contributing to and constraining conversion of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education programs into STEAM (science, technology, engineering, math and arts) education programs. The chapters in this book offer thought-provoking examples, theory, and suggestions about the advantages, methods and challenges involved in making STEM to STEAM conversions, at levels ranging from K12 through graduate university programs. A large driving force for STEM-to-STEAM conversions is the emerging awareness that the scientific workforce finds itself less than ideally prepared when engaging with so-called ‘wicked problems’ – the complex suite of emerging, multifaceted issues such as global climate change, social injustice, and pandemic diseases. Dealing with these issues requires cross-disciplinary expertise and the ability to insert technical and scientific understanding effectively into areas of public planning and policy.
The different models and possibilities for STEAM, as the next phase of the STEM revolution, laid out in this book will promote research and further our understanding of STEAM as a forward-thinking approach to education.
Gillian Roehrig, STEM Education, University of Minnesota, USA
The ideal teacher sees opportunities for integrating ideas from multiple disciplines into every lesson. This book offers many worthwhile suggestions on how to do that deliberately and systematically
George DeBoer, Project 2061 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, USA
For the last several years, calls for expanding STEM education have grown, but so too have concerns about technocratic approaches to STEM. This volume challenges the community to consider broader views on STEM by focusing on the place of arts education within this movement. The chapters offer much needed, new perspectives on the (re)integration of the arts and sciences
Troy Sadler, School of Education, University of North Carolina, USA
Editors and Affiliations
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Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, USA
Arthur J. Stewart
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University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, USA
Michael P. Mueller
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University of Georgia, Athens, USA
Deborah J. Tippins
About the editors
Michael P. Mueller is a professor of secondary education with expertise in environmental and science education in the College of Education at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His philosophy now focuses on how privileged cultural thinking frames our relationships with others, including nonhuman species and physical environments. He works with teachers tounderstand the significance of cultural diversity, biodiversity, and nature’s harmony. He is the coeditor-in-chief of Cultural Studies of Science Education.
Deborah J. Tippins is currently a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Science Education at the University of Georgia. Her scholarly work focuses on encouraging meaningful discourses around environmental justice and sociocultural issues in science education.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Converting STEM into STEAM Programs
Book Subtitle: Methods and Examples from and for Education
Editors: Arthur J. Stewart, Michael P. Mueller, Deborah J. Tippins
Series Title: Environmental Discourses in Science Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25101-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25100-0Published: 28 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25103-1Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25101-7Published: 27 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2352-7307
Series E-ISSN: 2352-7315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 305
Number of Illustrations: 126 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science Education, Creativity and Arts Education, Curriculum Studies, Teaching and Teacher Education, Learning & Instruction