Editors:
- Provides a comprehensive collection of STEM education research from early childhood through to senior secondary school
- Presents diverse research in STEM education through the lens of a unifying theoretical STEM framework
- Addresses the role of engagement and motivation in STEM education
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This is the first comprehensive book to consider STEM education from early childhood through to senior secondary education. It approaches STEM as a form of real-world, problem-based education that draws on the knowledge and skills of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. Rather than presenting each of the separate disciplines to an equal extent, it focuses on STEM researchers’ perspectives on how their work contributes to effective STEM education in terms of building knowledge, skills and engagement.
Gathering contributions by authors from various countries, the book explores effective STEM education from a range of perspectives within the international context. Moreover, it addresses critical issues in STEM education, including transition and trajectories, gender, rurality, socioeconomic status and cultural diversity. By doing so, it not only shares the current state of knowledge in this field, but also offers a source of inspiration for future research.
Keywords
- STEM skills
- STEM capabilities
- STEM motivation
- STEM academic emotions
- Engagement in STEM education
- Early childhood STEM education
- primary and elementary school STEM education
- middle school STEM education
- secondary and high school STEM education
- motivation in STEM education
- gender issues in STEM education
- disadvantage and STEM education
- STEM pedagogy
- STEM integration
- STEM inquiry learning
- STEM educational leadership
- learning and instruction
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Education, Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia
Amy MacDonald
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School of Teacher Education, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia
Lena Danaia
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School of Education, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia
Steve Murphy
About the editors
Lena Danaia is Associate Professor of Science Education in the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia. Lena specialises in science and technology curricula and is experienced in mixed methods research with a strong focus on surveys. She has been recognised nationally for her outstanding contributions to learning and teaching, and received an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Teaching Excellence Award. Beyond her research and university teaching, Lena contributes significantly to STEM education through teacher professional learning sessions and school-based science workshops.
Steve Murphy is a PhD candidate and Lecturer in STEM Education in the School of Education at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia. Previously, Steve worked for more than two decades in Principal, educational leadership and teaching roles in both primary and secondary schools. Steve is a STEM specialist, with experience in designing and delivering integrated and inquiry learning with strong digital learning elements. Steve’s doctoral research analysed case studies of schools identified as high performing in STEM in an effort to identify practices contributing to this performance.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: STEM Education Across the Learning Continuum
Book Subtitle: Early Childhood to Senior Secondary
Editors: Amy MacDonald, Lena Danaia, Steve Murphy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2821-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2820-0Published: 19 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2823-1Published: 19 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-2821-7Published: 18 February 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 311
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mathematics Education, Science Education, Engineering/Technology Education, Early Childhood Education, Schools and Schooling, Learning & Instruction