Pedagogical Strategies for Engaging Students in Science Classrooms

Topic: Pedagogical strategies to engage students in a science
classroom
Student name: Ramandeep Kaur
Student number: 4588967
Assessment 1: Literature Review
Unit: AED5001 Education Research Design and Methods
Date: 16/08/2018
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Introduction
Club together Science, Technology, Engineering and Math in an interdisciplinary fashion,
add some innovative methods of teaching beyond the books and what we have in our hands
will be a class learning with the help of STEM. At the turn of the previous century, the four
components of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) served as the
foundation of the development of Industrial revolution (Ross, 2016). During the previous
century STEM subjects were productive subjects for the students that were seeking for skills
to earn their livelihood, it indeed was an important stream of education. Under the schemes of
STEM they were incorporating scientific theories along with the real world applications; they
were also introducing Pedagogical practices so that students can grasp this knowledge easily.
(Stone, 2017).
STEM subjects are in a process of transformation where technology and the demands of the
industries of the future have a great role to play. Information levels of the students are very
high; they have a filtered and convenient access to the data. STEM subjects are important at
the middle levels of the education because they play a crucial role in the “critical thinking
faculty of an individual.” In the current assignment we are reviewing some sources of
literature that deals with the Pedagogical Practices for middle year science teachers to engage
their students in critical thinking in this changing environment.
The Literature Review
1. Saxena, A. (2014). Understanding scientific temperament and assessing its social
relevance. Journal of Scientific Temper. Viewed On 14th August 2.
https://web.stanford.edu/group/redlab/cgi-bin/materials/Kwek-Innovation%20In%20The
%20Classroom.pdf
Author Abhishek Saxena (2014) says that science was present to offer magical solutions to
the day to day problems in the past. Now, this magical spell has become a state of the factory
affair. In the future, the main role of the science will be to predict probable solutions. He
connected the scientific practices with social issues and quite frequently quoted some
international scientists of the world.
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In this paper, he gave us the breakdown of the nine elements of the scientific temper. This
piece of the literature is important for our study because it presents a sociological account of
some traditional theories that gave rise to a liberal thought process. He connected an
important thread of learning methods of the past to the present methods. According to him the
concept of "Do it yourself" was always present; however, the internet and other such
mediums gave it a new recognition for the current generation of the learners (Andrew
Gibbson, 2018).
This research paper is certainly helpful for us because it connects humanitarians with the
scientific temper and allows us to explore certain Pedagogical practices that were present in
the society in the past. The identification of these existing practices and a framework to
revamp them for the future students can always give us a new line of thought for the research
that we are undertaking.
2. Earp.J, STEM learning – international best practice, Australian Council for Educational
Research, Viewed on 14th August, https://www.teachermagazine.com.au/articles/stem-
learning-international-best-practice.
Australian middle-level students are losing interest in STEM-related studies and it can cause
a deficiency of STEM-based skill workers in the coming future says, Jo Earp (2017). Experts
at the Australian Council for Educational Research support this vision because it is an
outcome of some systematic studies that they did over the decades.
This article also gives us an access to the international viewpoints connected to the
Pedagogical Practices that are prevailing in various other countries. This article gives us an
insight into the international perspective that is surrounding the issue. This article also gives
us some takeaway points in the form of Key Findings of various surveys that have been done
in this direction.
Development of a standardized STEM ecosystem is emerging as an international concern.
Australia is not alone many other countries of the world are also facing the same problem. In
the first few paragraphs, this article establishes migration from the STEM as a future national
crisis (Yap, 2017). It also signifies the importance of user-friendly language to describe
STEM-related concepts. A summary of 18 in-depth case studies and experimental solutions
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