A NEW STEAM AGE: TOWARDS ONE CULTURE FOR LEARNING SCIENCE

Martin BRAUND

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A NEW STEAM AGE: TOWARDS ONE CULTURE FOR LEARNING SCIENCE

Authors:

Martin BRAUND

Main Topics:

Sociology and anthropology

Journal:

The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational and Social Sciences 2015 Vol.2, pp.13-17

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

4/2015

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2000659565

Abstract:

 


In many cultures learning has been organised around
subject disciplines broadly conceived as the Arts, Humanities and Sciences.
Subject disciplines of the curriculum have evolved structures and
characteristics creating boundaries between them that are counter to the
experiences of many adolescents, who rarely meet such borders in their daily
lives. Disciplinary borders favour a utilitarian
view of knowledge and creativity, often under-valuing some disciplines,
including the creative and performing arts, not directly associated with
primary means of economic production. The borders between self-reinforcing
disciplinary structures result in inadequate attention paid to the potential of
working across, between and beyond disciplines. In this paper I examine how
this schism between the ‘Arts’ and ‘Sciences’ has come about and the potential
harm it continues to do. An example from the history of science, the case of
Darwin’s changing relationship with the two cultures, is used to promote the
benefits of more creative approaches to teaching science in a new project,
‘Darwin Inspired Learning’. The benefits to learning science using methods from
one of the Arts, drama, are shown. The argument is made for ‘STEAM’, showing how education in the 21st
Century is moving away from a restricted notion of STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics) to one that encompasses the Arts (Science,
Technology, Engineering, ARTS and
Mathematics). STEAM promotes
economic development, encouraging people to work creatively to generate and
communicate ground breaking new ideas. It is argued that teaching methods and
content from arts subjects should be used to promote a more engaging and
cognitively challenging experience of science education at a time when poor
pupil attitudes to studying science subjects continues to be an issue in many
countries.  

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Article Details

A NEW STEAM AGE: TOWARDS ONE CULTURE FOR LEARNING SCIENCE

Authors: Martin BRAUND

Main Topics: Sociology and anthropology

Journal: The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational and Social Sciences 2015 Vol.2, pp.13-17

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 4/2015

Document Language: Turkish

Document ID (Org No.): 2000659565

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Authors:

Martin BRAUND

Main Topics:

Sociology and anthropology

Journal:

The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational and Social Sciences 2015 Vol.2, pp.13-17

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

4/2015

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2000659565