The Search for Method in STEAM Education

This book explores various approaches to building a positive interdisciplinary STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) learning environment, as described by educators across the K-20 educational ladder. Crucial to their success, Martinez finds, is the playful and performatory approach they employ in their teaching. Their practices are creative, improvisational, and inclusive, and are shared in detail through illustrations and interviews. Throughout the book, the author explores a Vygotskian cultural performatory approach to creating interdisciplinary STEAM learning environments, drawing out the history of this approach and its success in fostering collaboration, creativity, leadership, and communication skills, as well as its effect on social, emotional, and cognitive growth in both formal and informal educational settings.

Examines the history of STEAM policy, funding, curricula, and evaluation Presents an inquiry into what it means to think in the specific ways STEAM learning requires Uses a Vygotskian theoretical perspective on human learning that is consistently applied across different domains of STEAM learning and teaching practices Explores STEAM learning and teaching as a set of interrelated social practices that impact human learning and development Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Auteur

Jaime E. Martinez is Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Education at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), USA. His active research interests include STEAM education, service-learning pedagogy, and Vygotskian cultural performatory approaches to human development and learning.

Contenu
Chapter 1. The Education for Workforce Development Paradigm.- Chapter 2. Methodological Approaches to STEM/STEAM Learning .- Chapter 3. Science.- Chapter 4. Technology.- Chapter 5. Engineering.- Chapter 6. Art.- Chapter 7. Math.- Chapter 8. Service-learning Project.- Chapter 9. Reflections.