Abstract
In this editorial, I am explaining my background in STEM education course design, delivery, and research experiences and discussing the current state of STEM journals internationally. I am also including a short overview of the three articles of this inaugural issue of Hellenic Journal of STEM Education.
Highlights
In this editorial, I am explaining my background in STEM education course design, delivery, and research experiences and discussing the current state of STEM journals internationally
The two colleges “In response to the many calls for reform and innovative response by a series of important landmark commissions in science education developed a new, introductory course for teachers entitled: "Fundamentals of Science, Technology and Engineering Design"” as we wrote in the white paper
That experience gave me tremendous opportunities for learning the basics of engineering design and pedagogies related to, what we call today, “integrated STEM education.”
Summary
While I was a doctoral student at Penn State in late 1990’s, an outreach project of the College of Engineering was launched in collaboration with the College of Education. We saw that even at during that time many US and Australian states together with England & Wales, and Ireland had already infused ideas and elements of STEM into elementary and middle school science curricula During those early years STEM was not a daily word that educators and/or people on the streets knew and used. Infusion and integration of technology/engineering design for teaching and learning science were apparent We introduced those modern ideas to Turkey. With internationally increasing visibility of the, what we can call, STEM Movement has forced reintroduction of some STEM ideas into the science curricula, very vaguely, in 2018 In this story from Turkey, we see one example of how the international trends (or popularity) are influencing a nation’s educational agenda. STEM education needs to be the child of all four fields; not the biological child of science education and the step child of the other three
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