Overview
- Provides a clear literature derived and empirically tested framework of children’s creativity
- Contains rich discriptions of cross- disciplinary pedagogical approaches to children’s creative STEM inquiry
- Includes illustrative case studies of children’s creativity in STEM from a range of international education contexts
Part of the book series: Sociocultural Explorations of Science Education (SESE, volume 25)
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About this book
The book provides a lens for looking at children’s creativity in a range of different cultural settings. It offers insight and guidance to future research and will build educators’ capacity for developing children’s creative practices.
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Keywords
- Children’s Creative STEM Inquiry
- Children’s STEM Education and Creative Inquiry
- Children’s Creativity and STEM Education
- STEM Inquiry and Children’s Creativity
- Pedagogical Approaches to Children’s Creative STEM Inquiry
- International STEM Inquiry Pactices with Creative Children
- Teaching and Learning Creatively in Early Years STEM Inquiry
- Creative Inquiry in Childrens STEM Education
- Creative Children and STEM Inquiry
- Children’s STEM Inquiry Education and Creativity
Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Creative Dispositions and Processes – Synergies Between Inquiry and Creative Approaches to STEM Learning and Teaching
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Characteristics of Creative STEM Learning Environments
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Creative Approaches to Teaching STEM
Reviews
“This book presents a rich and detailed account of instructional and learning approaches for creative STEM inquiry. Most of the articles use qualitative research methodology and that is justified due to the vagueness of creativity definition within different cultural contexts, which again opens new and creative directions for future research. I highly recommend this book to STEM teacher educators and graduate students who may be interested in working in this evolving area.” (Sandra Richy John, MAA Reviews, November 21, 2023)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Coral Campbell is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at Deakin University. She has contributed significantly to the fields of science, science teaching and science/STEM educational research over three careers. Coral’s sustained focus on science/STEM education, teacher professional learning and students’ learning in science is reflected in her research around developing greater understandings of how teachers and students learn and ways to enhance this learning.
Mathilda Joubert is Director of Excellence and Innovation at Sheridan College, Perth where she lectures in both the Education and Business Faculties. She is currently completing her PhD at the University of Western Australia, studying the assessment of children’s creative thinking skills. Mathilda is a true cross-disciplinarian with bachelors, honours and/or masters degrees (in music, languages, arts education, cognitive neuropsychology and business) and experience teaching at primary, secondary and tertiary level. She serves on the Western Australian Executive of the Australian Council for Educational Leadership, is an accredited School Improvement Advisor for the Australian Council for Educational Research, a Director of Geelong Baptist College and a reviewer for the International Journal of Educational Research and the Thinking Skills and Creativity Journal.
Sinead Wilson is a Research Assistant and PhD student at Curtin University. In 2016, she graduated with a Masters of Education in through the University of Auckland and is passionate about educational projects and the research skills necessary to make them happen. Sinead has experience in working within a longitudinal research study called Growing Up in New Zealand where she worked as a research assistant for three years. From 2018- 2019 Sinead continued her work with Growing Up in New Zealand but from overseas in Mauritius, where she also volunteered her time at a local school. Sinead’s main area of interest is within the domain of children’s education and psychology, and her chosenfield for her doctorate is to investigate children’s online experiences. Specifically, she will investigate how the online safety of children is managed in family, care and educational settings; and what constitutes positive interactions in online environments. This research will commence February 2020.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Children’s Creative Inquiry in STEM
Editors: Karen Janette Murcia, Coral Campbell, Mathilda Marie Joubert, Sinead Wilson
Series Title: Sociocultural Explorations of Science Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94724-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94723-1Published: 06 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94726-2Published: 07 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-94724-8Published: 05 April 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-0248
Series E-ISSN: 2731-0256
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 364
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science Education, Education, general, Creativity and Arts Education, Mathematics Education, Engineering/Technology Education