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Embedding STEAM in Early Childhood Education and Care

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Editors:
  1. Caroline Cohrssen

    1. Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

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  2. Susanne Garvis

    1. Department of Education, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia

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  • Examines the teaching of STEAM in early childhood education

  • Explores both theory and practice to offer helpful frameworks on how to apply STEAM in learning

  • Draws together pedagogy and research from a range of global perspectives

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Weaving Science Through STEAM: A Process Skill Approach

    • Cristina Guarrella
    Pages 1-19

  3. Integrating Design Thinking, Digital Technologies and the Arts to Explore Peace, War and Social Justice Concepts with Young Children

    • Maria Hatzigianni, Athanasios Gregoriadis, Nektarios Moumoutzis, Marios Christoulakis, Vasiliki Alexiou
    Pages 21-40

  4. Creative Digital Art: Young Children’s Video Making Through Practice-Based Learning

    • Suzannie K. Y. Leung, Kimburley W. Y. Choi, Mantak Yuen
    Pages 41-63

  5. Augmented Reality in Early Childhood Education: Accessing Complex Concepts Within Imaginative Play Worlds

    • Rhys George, Parian Madanipour
    Pages 65-86

  6. Screen-Free STEAM: Low-Cost and Hands-on Approaches to Teaching Coding and Engineering to Young Children

    • Amanda Sullivan, Amanda Strawhacker
    Pages 87-113

  7. Integrating Engineering Within Early STEM and STEAM Education

    • Lyn D. English
    Pages 115-133

  8. STEAM Through Sensory-Based Action-Reaction Learning

    • Jan Deans, Susan Wright
    Pages 135-153

  9. To STEAM or Not to STEAM: Investigating Arts Immersion to Support Children’s Learning

    • Susan Narelle Chapman, Georgina Barton, Susanne Garvis
    Pages 155-172

  10. Using Mathematical Investigations in Projects for STEAM Integration

    • Marianne Knaus
    Pages 173-199

  11. Toddlers’ Mathematics: Whole Body Learning

    • Karin Franzén
    Pages 201-215

  12. The Mechanics of Interaction in Early Childhood STEAM

    • Amelia Church, Caroline Cohrssen
    Pages 217-236

  13. STEM Learning Ecologies: Productive Partnerships Supporting Transitions from Preschool to School Growing a Generation of New Learners

    • Nicola Yelland
    Pages 237-260

  14. STEM or STEAM or STREAM? Integrated or Interdisciplinary?

    • Douglas H. Clements, Julie Sarama
    Pages 261-275

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 277-286
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About this book

This book approaches STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics) in early childhood education from multiple angles. It focuses on the teaching and learning of children from two years of age to the early years of school. Proponents of STEAM describe how it can create opportunities for children to learn creatively, and various chapter authors make strong connections between discipline areas within the context of an informal curriculum. Others advocate for an integrated STEM, rather than STEAM, approach. With a light touch on theory and a focus on how to embed STE(A)M in an integrated early childhood curriculum, the editors and contributors examine the STEAM versus STEM question from multiple angles. The chapters provide helpful frameworks for parents, teachers and higher education institutions, and make practical suggestions of ways to support young children’s inquiry learning. Drawing on pedagogy and research from around the world, this book will be of interest to scholars of STEAM education, early childhood educators, students of early childhood education and parents of young children.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

    Caroline Cohrssen

  • Department of Education, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia

    Susanne Garvis

About the editors

Caroline Cohrssen is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at The University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include learning and teaching in the years prior to school entry. This includes the home learning environment and early childhood education settings. 


Susanne Garvis is a professor in the Department of Education at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include quality, policy and learning in early childhood education.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Embedding STEAM in Early Childhood Education and Care

  • Editors: Caroline Cohrssen, Susanne Garvis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65624-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65623-2Published: 29 May 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65626-3Published: 30 May 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65624-9Published: 28 May 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 286

  • Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Early Childhood Education, Science Education, Learning & Instruction

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