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Given the importance of student learning in the various types and integration of STEM education, this book provides a landscape of cross-disciplinary STEM learning in Asian primary schools, and a systematic overview of design, practices and outcomes of STEM learning implementation.
List of contents
1. Preface - Cross-disciplinary STEM Learning for Asian Primary Students: Achievements and Challenges
Part I: A Theoretical Perspective on STEM Education in Asian primary schools2. Policies and Practices of Cross-disciplinary School STEM Education in Asia: An Overview
3. Scaffolds for Educators for Designing STEM Activities: A Review of the Frameworks in STEM Education in Asia
Part II: Inquiry-based STEM Learning
4. The 5E Pedagogical Approach in Integrated STEM Learning
5. Building Miniature Stone Walls in Museum Settings: An Effective Cross-disciplinary STEM Activity in an Informal Learning Environment
Part III: Design-oriented STEM learning
6. Design-Based STEM-BCG Learning for Sustainable Development: Design, Practices, and Outcomes
7. Integrating Epistemic Practices of Engineering into Education
8. Environment-centred STEM Learning for Primary Students: School-STEM Professional Collaboration
Part IV: Technology-enhanced STEM learning
9. Pedagogical Design of STEM Activities for Developing Problem-Solving Skills and Digital Creativity of Primary Students in the Internet of Things Era: Six-Step STEM Pedagogy
10. The Innovative Use of Smartphones for STEM Practical Activities: A Pilot Implementation for a Malaysian Primary School
Part V: Practices in cross-disciplinary STEM learning
11. STEM Education for Primary Schools: A Topic Modelling Study of STEM Applied Learning Programme Websites in Singapore
12. The Impact of Two Teaching Behaviours on Primary School Students' STEM Learning Performance and Flow Experience
13. Perceptions of STEM Education of Teachers from Taiwan: Identifying Factors Influencing Commitment to STEM Teaching
14. Taking the Lead in STEM: A Case Study of a Singapore Primary Science Teacher's Attempt at STEM
About the author
Winnie Wing Mui So is a Professor in the Department of Science & Environmental Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong.
Zhi Hong Wan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the Education University of Hong Kong.
Tian Luo is an Assistant Professor in the College of Teacher Education at Capital Normal University, China.
Summary
Given the importance of student learning in the various types and integration of STEM education, this book provides a landscape of cross-disciplinary STEM learning in Asian primary schools, and a systematic overview of design, practices and outcomes of STEM learning implementation.
