Philosophy of STEM Education: A Critical Investigation
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Philosophy of STEM Education: A Critical Investigation
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Running head: CRITICAL STUDY ON STEM EDUCATIONCritical Study on Stem EducationName of the Student:Name of the University:Author Note:
1CRITICAL STUDY ON STEM EDUCATIONSTEM education aims to educate students in the disciplines of science, technology, engineeringand mathematics. The curriculum is based on real life applications that use an applied approach to thestudy. In spite of the efforts that STEM has been making since days, only a 16% of students from highschool are interested in developing a career with STEM (Kelley & Knowles, 2016). The campaign ofeducating for innovation by Obama in the year 2009 was announced to inspire students to indulge inand prove excellence in STEM subjects. The various problems in the STEM education that the authorsare trying to sort out are elaborately discussed in the essay. The essay also reflects the variousrecommendations given by the authors for enhancing the STEM education globally.STEM education is based on a cluster of studies such as medicine, agriculture, computers andothers that bring in different issues for the education. The education system does not have a properinternational standardized data that makes it often disoriented. Students’ participation has also reducedto a huge extent, which is demoralizing the education system. Limited participation of people fromsome specific groups with gender inequalities and imbalances has also proved to be barriers for thestudy. The education system alone does not suffice to promote innovations and some procedures in thestudy become complicated. The interdisciplinary studies that are dealt in STEM education becomesproblematic due to the cultural differences that prevail all around the globe. A deficit in STEMeducation also occurs in education systems that are very poorly principled. These education systemsrely more on assessment evaluation method than on innovation, which adopts reasoning skills andcritical analysis methods. In order to promote a proper functioning of the STEM education system, the authors are tryingto make both an explicit as well as implicit connection among the teachers and the students (Kelley &Knowles, 2016). They are trying to foster interests of students towards science and gradually inengineering through the assessment made in the article. The role of teachers to indulge students’
2CRITICAL STUDY ON STEM EDUCATIONattention in real conceptualized work and adopting innovative engineering projects and teachingmethods by the educators would help to integrate the STEM education across different parts of theworld. Integrating math and developing curriculum units in classrooms would support the promotionof STEM education to a good extent as is being identified by the authors.There are various recommendations to improve the STEM education system. The STEMfaculties must adopt an instructional approach so that the students have a proper knowledge about aparticular course. They must be provided with sufficient resource materials in order to realize theimportance of their study in their life. Implementing various reforms to encourage students to try thenew approaches and get more interested with innovative studies would make the education systemmore effective. Studio-based learning, research methods and enlightening students with the provokingwell-establishes objectives would make the education system more acceptable in the various regions(Kelley & Knowles, 2016). Sufficient funding for the progression of the system that requires enoughresources also needs to be provided for. A research on STEM education connotes to the need fordevelopment of a consensus about the importance of research results. Essentially, dedication bystudents and teachers serve to be the basic attribute to foster STEM education. Teaching and learningprocedures in STEM need to change, be it in leadership, work pressure for the faculties, supply ofresources and such others. Education based solely on empirical knowledge is not sufficient for STEMeducation. Focussing on a major problem of faculty crisis, an increase in employing of part-time andalternative faculty in the institutes would help to share the workloads in the educational sectors,making STEM education progressive. A strong intervention by academic professionals at all the levelsof education with various academic programs promotes values of the teaching method that wouldaccelerate STEM education in future.
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