Challenges and issues of STEM education
Anjum Qureshi, Nazir Qureshi
Abstract
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, abbreviated as STEM, is a promising field with increasing popularity due to its benefits in the modern world of globalization and modernization. Science and mathematics are the basics of the technological developments going on in the world. Thus, the children should be motivated to learn STEM from early school days. The minds of small kids are like a sponge, and they can grasp everything quickly. STEM education should be encouraged from childhood so that children like it and continue with it for higher education. This chapter discusses some of the challenges observed while encouraging children to learn STEM early and lists solutions.
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PopularityGlobalizationModernization theoryGRASPEngineering ethicsMathematics educationEarly childhoodPolitical scienceComputer sciencePsychologyEngineeringDevelopmental psychologyLawProgramming languageTeaching and Learning ProgrammingChild Development and Digital TechnologyGender and Technology in Education