Against a backdrop of advocacy for interdisciplinary STEM curricula, this paper explores the
design principles underpinning a three-year longitudinal research project that develops and …

Background Influential philosophers have suggested that interdisciplinarity is crucial for
ecosystem management and scientific practice, and for education to democracy. However, a …

Around the world, there is a growing interest in integrated STEM (science, technology,
engineering, mathematics) education. Many of the calls for integrated STEM emphasize the …

Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education has been dedicated to meeting
future workforce demands and reinforcing the nation's core competitiveness in the global …

Contemporary science education frameworks identify computational thinking as an essential
science and engineering practice that supports scientific sense‐making and engineering …

Background Around the world, efforts are underway to include engineering design as part of
elementary science instruction. A common rationale for those efforts is that Engineering …

This mixed methods study examined barriers faced by three elementary schools in their
approaches to integrating computational thinking (CT) into classroom instruction. Because …

Argumentation is an important activity in scientific exploration which has been agreed as a
major component in science education. Quality argumentation skills are formed with the …

We report a novel proposal for reducing the digital divide in rural multigrade schools,
incorporating knowledge of robotics with a STEM approach to simultaneously promote …

Statistics has the potential to facilitate the integration of STEM disciplines. This is possible
due to its inclusion in individual STEM curricula and its utility in designing learning …