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From streams to streaming: a critique of the influence of STEM on students’ imagination for a sustainable future

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posted on 2023-05-20, 14:20 authored by Caroline SmithCaroline Smith, Jane WatsonJane Watson
This article provides a literature-based critical review of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and STEM education. STEM is located in and contributes to a neoliberal view of economics and is narrowly focused on technological solutions to global problems. As such, it is unable to provide the kind of education students at all levels need for them to understand, imagine and prepare themselves for a sustainable future. The article calls for a reframing of science away from the technological focus of STEM, i.e. techno-science, towards a science of reconnection with nature and an opening of students’ imagination, and considers some of the elements of university leadership that are needed to enable this.

History

Publication title

Journal of Applied Teaching and Learning

Issue

Special Issue No.1

Pagination

21-29

ISSN

2591-801X

Department/School

Faculty of Education

Publisher

Kaplan

Place of publication

Singapore

Rights statement

Copyright 2020 The Authors

Repository Status

  • Open

Socio-economic Objectives

Policies and development; Assessment, development and evaluation of curriculum