Overview
- Examines the history of STEAM policy, funding, curricula, and evaluation
- Presents an inquiry into what it means to think in the specific ways STEAM learning requires
- Uses a Vygotskian theoretical perspective on human learning that is consistently applied across different domains of STEAM learning and teaching practices
- Explores STEAM learning and teaching as a set of interrelated social practices that impact human learning and development
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies In Play, Performance, Learning, and Development (PPLD)
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This book explores various approaches to building a positive interdisciplinary STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) learning environment, as described by educators across the K-20 educational ladder. Crucial to their success, Martinez finds, is the playful and performatory approach they employ in their teaching. Their practices are creative, improvisational, and inclusive, and are shared in detail through illustrations and interviews. Throughout the book, the author explores a Vygotskian cultural performatory approach to creating interdisciplinary STEAM learning environments, drawing out the history of this approach and its success in fostering collaboration, creativity, leadership, and communication skills, as well as its effect on social, emotional, and cognitive growth in both formal and informal educational settings.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Setting the Stage
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Development Takes Practice
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jaime E. Martinez is Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Education at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), USA. His active research interests include STEAM education, service-learning pedagogy, and Vygotskian cultural performatory approaches to human development and learning.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Search for Method in STEAM Education
Authors: Jaime E. Martinez
Series Title: Palgrave Studies In Play, Performance, Learning, and Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55822-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85757-2Published: 02 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55822-6Published: 04 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-2630
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 165
Topics: Science Education, Technology and Digital Education, Creativity and Arts Education, Mathematics Education, Curriculum Studies