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Designing STEAM education: fostering relationality through design-led disruption
Citation
MacDonald, AJ and Wise, K and Tregloan, K and Wallis, L and Fountain, W and Holmstrom, N, Designing STEAM education: fostering relationality through design-led disruption, The International Journal of Art & Design Education ISSN 1476-8062 (In Press) [Refereed Article]
Abstract
A significant contention underpinning the commentary around STEM/STEAM is the evidence of discipline hierarchies, and inherent binary perspectives and/or biases that lend themselves to privileging one or more disciplines over another in an interdisciplinary education context. The current focus on increasing engagement with STEM in Australian schools provides opportunities to explore how the creative and liberal arts, and arts-based approaches to teaching and learning are being adopted to significantly enhance teaching and learning outcomes in and for STEM education. This article examines how design for a STEAM education program evolves and is adopted in an Australian context. Tasmania represents one of the most vibrant creative communities in Australia. At the same time it has one of the lowest levels of educational attainment. Entrenched teaching habits and disciplinary hierarchies often create significant barriers to the implementation of STEAM despite genuine goodwill and enthusiasm for STEAM among teachers and within schools. This article argues that, despite the contrasting dynamics extant in the Tasmanian educational context, it is here that some of the nation’s most curious and exciting examples of STEAM teaching and learning have emerged. It offers an example of an innovative learning project and proposes the means by which these disciplinary strands have been
effectively entwined.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | STEAM, inter-disciplinary curriculum, collaborative inquiry, relational pedagogy, experiential learning, design/build |
| Research Division: | Education |
| Research Group: | Curriculum and Pedagogy |
| Research Field: | Creative Arts, Media and Communication Curriculum and Pedagogy |
| Objective Division: | Cultural Understanding |
| Objective Group: | Arts and Leisure |
| Objective Field: | The Creative Arts (incl. Graphics and Craft) |
| UTAS Author: | MacDonald, AJ (Dr Abbey MacDonald) |
| UTAS Author: | Wallis, L (Dr Louise Wallis) |
| UTAS Author: | Fountain, W (Dr Wendy Fountain) |
| UTAS Author: | Holmstrom, N (Mr Neil Holmstrom) |
| ID Code: | 134749 |
| Year Published: | In Press |
| Deposited By: | Education |
| Deposited On: | 2019-09-02 |
| Last Modified: | 2019-10-14 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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