Transformative Steam Education for Sustainable Development : International Perspectives and Practices

Taylor, Elisabeth Lily (EDT); Taylor, Peter Charles (EDT)

ISBN 10: 9004524681 / ISBN 13: 9789004524682

Published by Brill, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transformative Steam Education for Sustainable Development : International Perspectives and Practices
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004524681
• ISBN 13: 9789004524682
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

We are currently experiencing an unprecedented era in the history of the planet. Our addiction to fossil fuels and powerful technologies is dangerously altering the Earth’s natural systems, giving rise to well-documented global crises of climate change, plastic pollution of the oceans, and tragic loss of biocultural diversity.

These crises have created a unique challenge for STEM educators, given that STEM disciplinary knowledge and skills are often viewed as the panacea to the world’s economic and environmental problems. This popular view tends to focus narrowly, however, on students learning scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical concepts about the world out there, thereby ignoring the crucial role education must play in shaping students’ attitudes and values – their inner worlds – that drive moral agency to live and work in sustainable ways. It is moral agency that empowers socially and environmentally responsible citizens to tackle global crises.

In this timely book you will read inspiring stories of how professional educators in STEM-related fields have embraced transformative learning and arts education to develop and implement integrated STEAM education programs and practices that are preparing young people with special capabilities and values to actively contribute to the sustainable development of a world in crisis.

About the Author

Elisabeth (Lily) Taylor, Ph.D. (2003), Curtin University, is Senior Lecturer of Science Education at Edith Cowan University, Australia. She has published on the development of moral agency through transformative values learning in Science, Sustainability and STEAM Education.
Peter Charles Taylor, Ph.D. (1993), Curtin University, is Adjunct Professor of Transformative Education at Murdoch University, Australia. He has published widely on transformative learning, including Research as Transformative Learning for Sustainable Futures (Brill | Sense, 2019).