Steam Education: Intersections and Thresholds

Integrating science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics into a holistic and robust STEAM education is a promising educational movement worldwide. STEAM Education: Intersections and Thresholds features four themes―pedagogical frameworks, community-based learning, STEM‒STEAM transformation, and teacher education practices―examined by researchers, educators, policymakers, and community organizers from around the world. Readers will find unique and innovative curricular ideas, instructional strategies, STEAM gadgets, examples of real classroom activities, and projects for students from elementary to graduate school to enrich STEAM education. This collection of best practices is a must-have to build diverse, integrative, and engaging STEAM experiences in the 21st century.

Contributors are: Lori Czop Assaf, Paul Boey, Hsin-Yi Chao, Yichien Cooper, Yeliz Erdoğan, Suzan Duygu Bedir Erişti, Maria Evagorou, Jonah B. Firestone, Snow Yunxue Fu, David Glassmeyer, Luke Hampton, Kevin Hsieh, Sean Justice, Chia-Hung Kao, Alice Lai, Christine Liao, Don McMahon, Isao Ohashi, Vedat Özsoy, Eliza Pitri, Shyh-Shiun Shyu, Debrah C. Sickler-Voigt, Agni Stylianou-Georgiou, Michael White, So Lan Wong, and Yui-Chih Wu.

Dr. Yichien Cooper, an assistant professor at Washington State University, Tri-Cities, publishes topics on arts integration, STEAM education, arts-based pedagogy, data visualization, and mixed identity internationally. She is 2024–2027 National Director of the Higher Education Division for the National Art Education Association and received the 2019 City of Richland Proclamation of Appreciation, the NAEA 2024 Kathy Connors Teaching Award, and the WSUTC 2024 Distinguished Teaching Award.

Dr. Alice Lai is a professor at the School of Arts and Humanities at Empire State University, State University of New York. She received the Susan H. Turben Award for Excellence in Scholarship at Empire State University and the Marantz Distinguished Alumni Lectureship Award from the Ohio State University. She publishes topics on art education, STEAM education, and critical theories and pedagogies encompassing feminism, critical multiculturalism, anticolonialism, and digital equality.