Making STEM curriculum useful, relevant, and motivating for students
More than ever, we live in a connected, global community. In this chapter we argue for a STEM school education that helps students to explore and experience the kind of connectedness that reflects life outside of school. While many would agree that STEM curricula should be embedded in real-world, au...
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| description | More than ever, we live in a connected, global community. In this chapter we argue for a STEM school education that helps students to explore and experience the kind of connectedness that reflects life outside of school. While many would agree that STEM curricula should be embedded in real-world, authentic contexts, much of the current policy and practice favours disciplinary approaches to knowledge narrowly focused on what is readily measurable or amenable to achievement testing. In contrast, the issues that affect students' lives outside of school are not unidisciplinary, neither are the solutions to problems that beset our world today. Here, we explore the contribution of an integrated approach to STEM education with the goal of increasing students' opportunities to engage in contextual, multidisciplinary issue-based learning. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-599882018-08-01T01:23:29Z Making STEM curriculum useful, relevant, and motivating for students Rennie, Leonie Venville, G. Wallace, J. More than ever, we live in a connected, global community. In this chapter we argue for a STEM school education that helps students to explore and experience the kind of connectedness that reflects life outside of school. While many would agree that STEM curricula should be embedded in real-world, authentic contexts, much of the current policy and practice favours disciplinary approaches to knowledge narrowly focused on what is readily measurable or amenable to achievement testing. In contrast, the issues that affect students' lives outside of school are not unidisciplinary, neither are the solutions to problems that beset our world today. Here, we explore the contribution of an integrated approach to STEM education with the goal of increasing students' opportunities to engage in contextual, multidisciplinary issue-based learning. 2017 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/59988 10.1007/978-981-10-5448-8_6 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Rennie, Leonie Venville, G. Wallace, J. Making STEM curriculum useful, relevant, and motivating for students |
| title | Making STEM curriculum useful, relevant, and motivating for students |
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