Integrated Approaches to STEM Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Investigating the Potential of Integrated STEM Education from an International Perspective

   • Judy Anderson, Yeping Li

   Pages 1-12

3. Approaches to STEM Integration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. STEM Integration: Diverse Approaches to Meet Diverse Needs

      • Yeping Li, Judy Anderson

      Pages 15-20

   3. STEM Education for the Twenty-First Century

      • Russell Tytler

      Pages 21-43

   4. Facilitating STEM Integration Through Design

      • Lyn D. English

      Pages 45-66

   5. A Review of Conceptions of Secondary Mathematics in Integrated STEM Education: Returning Voice to the Silent M

      • Erin E. Baldinger, Susan Staats, Lesa M. Covington Clarkson, Elena Contreras Gullickson, Fawnda Norman, Bismark Akoto

      Pages 67-90

   6. What Is the Role of Statistics in Integrating STEM Education?

      • Jane Watson, Noleine Fitzallen, Helen Chick

      Pages 91-115

   7. Numeracy Across the Curriculum as a Model of Integrating Mathematics and Science

      • Anne Bennison, Vince Geiger

      Pages 117-136

   8. Investigating the Epistemic Nature of STEM: Analysis of Science Curriculum Documents from the USA Using the Family Resemblance Approach

      • Wonyong Park, Jen-Yi Wu, Sibel Erduran

      Pages 137-155

   9. Approaches to Effecting an iSTEM Education in Southern Africa: The Role of Indigenous Knowledges

      • Judah Makonye, Reuben Dlamini

      Pages 157-174

4. Designing Integrated STEM Approaches for Students

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. Focusing on Students and Their Experiences in and Through Integrated STEM Education

      • Yeping Li, Judy Anderson

      Pages 177-183

   3. Connecting Computational Thinking and Science in a US Elementary Classroom

      • Emily C. Miller, Samuel Severance, Joe Krajcik

      Pages 185-204

   4. Developing US Elementary Students’ STEM Practices and Concepts in an Afterschool Integrated STEM Project

      • Sasha Wang, Yu-hui Ching, Dazhi Yang, Steve Swanson, Youngkyun Baek, Bhaskar Chittoori

      Pages 205-226

   5. What Can Integrated STEAM Education Achieve? A South Korean Case

      • Nam-Hwa Kang

      Pages 227-249

   6. Student STEM Beliefs and Engagement in the UK: How They Shift and Are Shaped Through Integrated Projects

      • Karen Skilling

      Pages 251-270

   7. Climate Change and Students’ Critical Competencies: A Norwegian Study

      • Lisa Steffensen

      Pages 271-293

   8. Examining a Technology and Design Course in Middle School in Turkey: Its Potential to Contribute to STEM Education

      • Behiye Ubuz

      Pages 295-312

   9. Incorporating Mathematical Thinking and Engineering Design into High School STEM Physics: A Case Study

      • Israel Touitou, Barbara Schneider, Joe Krajcik

      Pages 313-329

This book provides a platform for international scholars to share evidence for effective practices in integrated STEM education and contributes to the theoretical and practical knowledge gained from the diversity of approaches.

Many publications on STEM education focus on one or two of the separate STEM disciplines without considering the potential for delivering STEM curriculum as an integrated approach.This publication analyzes the efficacy of an integrated STEM curriculum and instruction, providing evidence to examine and support various integrations. The volume focuses on the problems seen by academics working in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and provides valuable, high quality research outcomes and a set of valued practices which have demonstrated their use and viability to improve the quality of integrated STEM education.

• STEM Education
• International perspectives of STEM Education
• Mathematics in integrated STEM education
• Statistics in STEM education
• STEM and numeracy in the Australian curriculum
• Designing integrated STEM approaches for students
• Approaches to STEM integration
• Implementing STEM approaches in preservice teacher education
• Implementing STEM approaches in teacher professional development
• Case studies of integrated STEM Education
• STEM integrated curriculum
• School students learning STEM
• Advances in STEM education

“Integrated Approaches to STEM Education: An International Perspective is a compendium of chapters … . the editors and chapter authors paint an exciting and detailed picture of both what is possible and what is challenging about an Integrated Approaches to STEM Education.” (Suzanne M. Wilson, Journal for STEM Education Research, Vol. 4, 2021)

• Sydney School of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia

  Judy Anderson

• Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

  Yeping Li

Dr Judy Anderson is an Associate Professor in Mathematics Education at the Sydney School of Education and Social Work, the University of Sydney, Australia with research interests in mathematics education, motivation and engagement, and STEM professional learning. At the University of Sydney, she has held the position of Director of the STEM Teacher Enrichment Academy for the past six years. This professional development program for primary and secondary school teachers has reached nearly 1250 teachers in more than 220 schools and is supported by a team of 12 academic staff, a postdoctoral research fellow and a project manager. Judy has published widely with more 70 publications since 2009 in international, and national journals and conference proceedings. She is currently the Associate Editor of Curriculum Perspectives, an international Springer journal, and is a member of the editorial board of the Springer publication Mathematics Teacher Education and Development. She is currently the Secretary of the International Group of the Psychology of Mathematics Education (IGPME).

Dr. Yeping Li is a Full Professor at the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture at Texas A&M University, USA. His research interests include mathematics education, STEM education, and teacher education. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of STEM Education and Journal for STEM Education Research, both published by Springer, and is also the editor of several monograph series including, Advances in STEM Education also published by Springer. In addition to publishing over 15 books and special journal issues in recent years, he has published more than 100 articles in topic areas that he is interested in. He has also organized and chaired many group sessions at various national and international professional conferences, such as International Congress on Mathematical Education -10 (ICME-10) (2004), ICME-11 (2008), ICME-12 (2012), and American Educational Research Association (AERA). He received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Studies in Education from the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

 

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