The importance of STEAM education in schools: literature review

• Author(s): Lopes, Isabel Maria ; Rocha, João ; Oliveira, Pedro
• Date: 2022
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/26083
• Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Document Type: Conference object
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Biblioteca Digital do IPB

Description

Never before has there been so much talk about educational innovation like today! Innovation that translates into a continuous process of improving teaching in our schools, which necessarily involves the human development of each and every student, focusing on areas that also accompany the technological development of recent decades. The advent of new emerging technologies has led to the emergence of teaching and learning approaches aimed at cultivating the critical thinking needed for the complex and rapidly changing digital age. This trend has contributed to an integrated approach to teaching and learning known as STEAM (Meletiou-Mavrotheris M., 2022). It is this methodology that we intend to briefly address in this work, given that the topic is emerging and that it should be studied empirically, so that this methodology is implemented in our schools, although the same is not done in this work, limiting itself to a more theoretical approach. Thus, a literature review was carried out in order to clarify the extent to which STEAM education can contribute to the much-desired educational innovation.