The STEAM Approach: Implementation and educational, social and economic consequences
Identificadores
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10481/73378Metadatos
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STEM competences
Fecha
2021Referencia bibliográfica
F. Javier Perales & José Luis Aróstegui (2021): The STEAM approach: Implementation and educational, social and economic consequences , Arts Education Policy Review
Resumen
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.