Sociocultural Approaches to STEM Education:An ISCAR Inteational Collective Issue:21 (Sociocultural Explorations of Science Education, 21)

by: Katerina Plakitsi (Editor),Sylvie Barma(Editor)

Publisher: Springer
Edition:1st ed. 2023

Publication Date: 2 Jan. 2024

Language: English

Print Length: 315 pages

ISBN-10: 3031443764

ISBN-13: 9783031443763

Book Description

This book is a contribution to the sociocultural approaches to Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education. It offers a new interpreting theoretical framework coming from the Cultural Historical Psychology. The authors highlight some serious elements of the sociocultural context that mediates leaing on STEM or with STEM adds. The book brings together the work of researchers interested in developmental psychology and childhood, with a special focus on using Activity theory and Cultural-historical research approach to unite these two opposing approaches to the study of children. The authors reconsider our relationship and experiencing with technology. It moves the attention from the pure instrumental aspect of technology to a deep human and societal approach. Moreover, the book focuses on the issue of teachers' continuing education in both formal and informal settings is being seen under a sequential system of expansive cycles and the key role of contradictions in transformative educational settings. Overall, this book encourages the academic society to open dialogue with other societies and enhance interdisciplinary research in times of crisis.