Full STEAM ahead: a manifesto for integrating arts pedagogics in to STEM education
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Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)
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This paper sets out to challenge the common pedagogies found in STEM education with a particular focus on engineering. The dominant engineering pedagogy remains “chalk and talk”; despite research evidence that demonstrates its ineffectiveness. The paper argues that there is a potential confusion in engineering education around the role of active learning approaches, and that the adoption of these approaches may be limited as a result of this confusion, combined with a degree of disciplinary egocentrism. The paper presents examples of engineering and “engineering like” projects that demonstrate the effectiveness of adopting pedagogies and delivery methods more usually attributed to the liberal arts such as studio based learning. The paper concludes with some suggestions about how best to create a fertile environment from which inquiry based learning can emerge as well as a reflection on whether the only real limitation on cultivating such approaches is the disciplinary egocentrism of traditional engineering educators.Description
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IEEE InternationalConference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning in Engineering 2014 held at Te Papa Tongarewa National Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, NZ, 2014-12-08 to 2014-12-10
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