Knowledge Generation in STEM and STEAM Education: Integrative Thinking and Agency - Hardcover

Kidman, Gillian; Tan, Hazel; Gesthuizen, Roland; Mangao, Dominador D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3032032466 ISBN 13: 9783032032461

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025

Synopsis

This book examines how integrative practices are conceived, described, and taught within the context of STEA+M education. STEA+M education is far more than a disciplinary expansion of STEM education; it is a paradigmatic shift in educational purpose and practice, offering a framework for rethinking how knowledge is produced, whose voices are legitimised, and what purposes education serves.  The authors argue that teachers must not only understand the knowledge and skills of a specialist discipline but also understand how to integrate and synthesise knowledge in a cross-disciplinary fashion between several disciplines simultaneously. For teachers to effectively integrate multiple educational domains, they must engage students in integrative STEA+M thinking practices such as inquiry-based learning, student agency, and neo-twenty-first century skills. This must occur not only within, but also across, disciplines in an integrated manner, whether this involves multi-, inter-, or trans-disciplinary approaches. This skill is defined as integrative inquiry literacy. 

About this title

About the Author

Gillian Kidman is from Monash University, Australia. She specialises in science, mathematics, geography education, and integrative STEM/STEAM education.

Hazel Tan is from Monash University, Australia. She specialises in secondary mathematics and integrative STEM/STEAM education.

Roland Gesthuizen is a senior teacher with the Department of Education Victoria, Australia. He specialises in digital pedagogy and computational thinking. 

Dominador Dizon Mangao is from the Philippine Normal University, Philippines. He is a specialist in science education.

From the Back Cover

This book examines how integrative practices are conceived, described, and taught within the context of STEA+M education. STEA+M education is far more than a disciplinary expansion of STEM education; it is a paradigmatic shift in educational purpose and practice, offering a framework for rethinking how knowledge is produced, whose voices are legitimised, and what purposes education serves.  The authors argue that teachers must not only understand the knowledge and skills of a specialist discipline but also understand how to integrate and synthesise knowledge in a cross-disciplinary fashion between several disciplines simultaneously. For teachers to effectively integrate multiple educational domains, they must engage students in integrative STEA+M thinking practices such as inquiry-based learning, student agency, and neo-twenty-first century skills. This must occur not only within, but also across, disciplines in an integrated manner, whether this involves multi-, inter-, or trans-disciplinary approaches. This skill is defined as integrative inquiry literacy. 

Gillian Kidman is from Monash University, Australia. She specialises in science, mathematics, geography education, and integrative STEM/STEAM education.

Hazel Tan is from Monash University, Australia. She specialises in secondary mathematics and integrative STEM/STEAM education.

Roland Gesthuizen is a senior teacher with the Department of Education Victoria, Australia. He specialises in digital pedagogy and computational thinking. 

Dominador Dizon Mangao is from the Philippine Normal University, Philippines. He is a specialist in science education. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3032032466
• ISBN 13: 9783032032461
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 404