STEM Synergy: Advancing Integrated Approaches in Education
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "STEM Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 901
Special Issue Editors
Interests: STEM integration through agriculture, food, and natural resources; interdisciplinary collaboration; integrated STEM teaching and learning
Interests: integrated STEM teaching and learning; supports for in-service and preservice elementary teachers in STEM; engineering design-based STEM integration; STEM and literacy; STEM and computational thinking
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the past two decades, STEM integration has attracted considerable attention in educational research, and it is interpreted in various ways. Not only there is no one way to define STEM integration, but there are also different theoretical and conceptual models for implementing integrated STEM approaches. Although STEM integration portrays divergent models to be dependent on how researchers and practitioners interpret it, one common theme across these models is the idea that the integration of the disciplines of STEM is beneficial to motivate STEM learning, increase STEM knowledge gain, encourage the development of 21st -century skills, and signify interdisciplinary collaboration. This Special Issue will advance our knowledge of the best ways to implement an integrated approach in STEM education for enabling synergy that combines the power of STEM disciplines with a strong and effective impact. We are also interested in exploring integrated approaches that utilize disciplines outside of STEM, such as art and agriculture, to broaden our understanding of how researchers and practitioners structure integration and synergies within STEM. The theme of this Special Issue includes theoretically/conceptually framed model development, STEM teaching and student learning, teacher education, evaluation and assessment, curriculum and instructional design, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Dr. Hui-Hui Wang
Dr. Kristina M. Tank
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- STEM integration
- interdisciplinary collaboration
- integrated teaching and learning
- STEM teacher education
- integrated STEM assessment
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