Advances in STEAM Education Research and Practice: Towards Sustainable Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 307
Special Issue Editors
Interests: STEM; STE(A)M; teacher education; mathematics education; professional development; engineering research methodology; teaching and learning; educational technology; research methodology; big data; analytics; education research
2. Faculty of Education, Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology, Manisa Celal Bayar University, 45900 Manisa, Turkey
Interests: ICT integration; teacher education; computer science education; diffusion of innovation; technology acceptance model; integrated STEM education
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue foregrounds the potential of and challenges associated with disciplinary and interdisciplinary reasoning and learning, acknowledging the critical role of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) in education for sustainable and equitable environments, societies and work in the future. It is essential to engage students and the wider community to develop the skills needed for a successful transition to a sustainable society.
Research in STEM education and practice towards Sustainable Development is strongly grounded in the practices of educators, institutions, and systems, and is committed to innovative (inter)disciplinary pedagogies, transformative curricular practices, teacher identities and professional learning, and school and systemic change.
An increasing number of research studies focus on early childhood to adult learning settings. Striving for an ethically informed future, STEM education, research, and practice necessitate the development of a list of basic capabilities such as critical thinking; creative reasoning; computational thinking; the modelling and design of contemporary STEM practices; and adapting, developing, and integrating new innovative resources and technologies. Student agency, citizenship, and equity in relation to STEM participation are also crucial.
The development of technology, including augmented reality, 3D-printing, gamification, and adaptive learning, and the refinement of research methods in technology-supported learning environments contribute to a more sustainable integration of pedagogical innovations into scientific and school practices (Lavicza, et al., 2022).
This Special Issue aims to provide a forum for sharing research findings, ideas, and perspectives on this fast-growing field of STEM education research and practice towards Sustainable Development.
Recommended topics include, but are not restricted to, the following:
- Teaching across subject boundaries.
- Studying and supporting STEM teachers, their practices and learning, and school changes.
- Researching students’ learning in STEM.
- Primary and secondary teachers’ adaptive expertise in interdisciplinary math and science.
- STEM practices and STEM partnerships.
- Girls in STEM education .
- Promoting critical and creative thinking, reasoning, and learning in STEM.
- Sustainable learning: Students’ engagement with STEM subjects.
- Multimodal languages and learning in STEM.
- Contemporary research methodologies in STEM.
- Developing educational innovations for STEM education in rapidly changing digital technology environments.
- Authentic science and mathematics in schools.
- Integrating computational thinking in STEM education.
Dr. Theodosia Prodromou
Dr. Filiz Kuşkaya Mumcu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- STEM
- teaching
- learning
- interdisciplinary
- transdisciplinary
- sustainable
- development
- practice
- practices
- partnerships
- futures
- emerging technologies
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