STEAM Education and Digital Competencies
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "STEM Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 2895
Special Issue Editors
2.Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Interests: teachers of biology and geology training and professional development; science teaching and communication; environmental education and education for sustainability, science teaching approaches and methodologies; geoethics
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2.Institute of Physics for Advanced Materials, Nanotechnology and Photonics, Porto, Portugal
Interests: digital educational resources for teaching science in general and physics in particular; physics and chemistry teacher training and professional development; teaching and communication of science; STEAM approach
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The state of today's society shows us the urgent need to equip students with digital skills so as to prepare them for the competitiveness of the job market. On the other hand, the holistic and integrated vision of knowledge in an interdisciplinary network becomes essential for the panoply of functions that a professional in any area must be able to respond to. In this sense, the STEAM approach and the use of digital resources or online tasks enhance the possibility of providing students with the 21st-century skills.
STEAM education is often referred to as an approach that attracts girls to areas where they could be better represented. How far is this is true?
On the other hand, it is also defined as an approach where the teacher has to master various areas of knowledge, including digital skills. How could teachers build STEAM projects with resources that involve both teaching and learning digital skills?
In this Special Issue, we invite scholars to submit articles that answers the aforementioned questions along with supporting evidence. We hope this will help teachers during their initial training and professional development, allowing them to use the STEAM approach efficiently to enrich both the teaching and learning process.
Manuscripts with the following focuses are welcome:
- Systematic reviews that bring together knowledge on a specific topic of STEAM education for involving girls in areas they are/were not particularly interested in or learning digital competencies;
- Educational innovations focused on STEAM education and developing digital competencies;
- Theoretical and conceptual frameworks related to digital educational resources used in STEAM Education.
This Special Issue on ‘STEAM Education and Digital Competencies’ will accept both review and empirical articles developed at any school level, and higher education or non-formal educational environments.
Dr. Clara Vasconcelos
Dr. Marcelo Dumas Hahn
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- STEAM education
- digital competencies
- interdisciplinary
- STEAM educator profile
- STEAM competencies
