Full Description
STEM education is shaped by interconnected macro, meso, and micro structures that impact curriculum design, teaching practices, and learning outcomes. This book explores three distinctive STEM programmes, offering practical insights for educators, researchers, and policymakers to design, plan, and implement effective STEM opportunities that drive meaningful, transformative education.
The first programme, Code to Sew, showcases a university-industry-school partnership that bridges the private-public spaces to foster innovative learning. The second programme, EPIC-STEM, takes an ecosystemic approach to building students' STEM capital through the affordance of multiple epistemic infrastructures—hackathons, consultative STEM inquiry, symposia, internships, and learning journeys—providing a scalable model across local school clusters. The third programme transcends national boundaries, enhancing teachers' capacities for STEM curriculum development with cognisance and sensitivities to the partnering country's digital transformation, education reforms, and local needs.
This book is an essential resource for readers from academic or scholarly policy-making backgrounds aiming to gain deeper insights into the interconnected Structures of STEM education and how they shape meaningful, transferable learning experiences for both educators and learners.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword 1
Foreword 2
Foreword 3
Preface
Acknowledgements
Declarations
SECTION A: INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction to STEM education
2. Theoretical Framework
SECTION B: UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY STEM PARTNERSHIP
3. University-industry partnership in STEM education
4. (Micro) vignettes: Developing understanding about materials
5. (Micro) vignettes: Digital coding and sewing
6. (Micro) vignettes: Digital embroidery and sewing
7. (Macro-meso-micro) Structures of Code to Sew
SECTION B SUMMARY
SECTION C: LOCAL ECOSYSTEMIC STEM EDUCATION
8. Building a local STEM ecosystem
9. (Meso and micro) Structures of the EPIC-STEM hackathon
10. (Meso and micro) Structures of the EPIC-STEM inquiry projects
11. (Meso and micro) Structures of the EPIC-STEM student symposium
SECTION C SUMMARY
SECTION D: REGIONAL STEM EDUCATION
12. (Macro) Structures of STEM education in Asia
13. (Meso) Structures of Indonesia's education system
14. (Micro) Structures of STEM teacher capacity building in Indonesia
SECTION D SUMMARY
SECTION E: IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSION
15. Implications and conclusion
Index
