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A Theoretical Framework for Implementing STEM Education

In: Theorizing STEM Education in the 21st Century

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  • Vongai Mpofu

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Globally, strengthening Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education is recognized as embedding solutions to many societal problems like the depletion of natural resources and issues related to climate change. The recognition of STEM disciplines as economic drivers motivated the initiation of STEM education in both developed and developing nations. This is based on the thinking that an effective STEM education is a vehicle for developing in students the much desired twenty-first century competences. Yet, its operationalization has remained a great challenge in many nations. In most nations, educators lack a cohesive understanding of STEM education and are also deprived of an easy-to-understand STEM education framework that informs classroom practices. This chapter proposes a practical theoretical framework that nations may adopt and/or adapt for their STEM education to be successful.

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  • Vongai Mpofu, 2020. "A Theoretical Framework for Implementing STEM Education," Chapters, in: Kehdinga George Fomunyam (ed.), Theorizing STEM Education in the 21st Century, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:197240
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.88304
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    1. Ana B. Montoro & Carmen Gloria Aguayo-Arriagada & Pablo Flores, 2021. "Measurement in Primary School Mathematics and Science Textbooks," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 9(17), pages 1-19, September.

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    classroom practice; STEM education; STEM educators; theoretical frameworks;
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    JEL classification:

    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions

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