The STEAM Approach: Implementation and educational, social and economic consequences Perales Palacios, Francisco Javier Arostegui Plaza, José Luis STEM competences The integration of the arts and humanities into the core of curriculum along with the sciences and technological disciplines is an emerging issue in educational research. This article seeks to contribute to this research and curricular approach, for which we analyze the emergence of the STEAM movement, its implementation in class, and its social, economic, and educational consequences. The main conclusion reached is that, without ignoring the economic rationality in education, it is necessary to go further in order to embrace a more social and democratic conception of schooling, trying to take advantage of this historical moment to transform education toward a more humanistic approach–without neglecting the scientific facet–that offers a well-rounded education to new generations while, at the same time, responds to the social and economic demands of our current world. 2022-03-14T11:52:06Z 2022-03-14T11:52:06Z 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/article F. Javier Perales & José Luis Aróstegui (2021): The STEAM approach: Implementation and educational, social and economic consequences , Arts Education Policy Review http://hdl.handle.net/10481/73378 https://doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2021.1974997 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España