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STEM Learning Ecologies (EDUC91027)

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This subject includes Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and will connect with Place and Country through STEM learning ecologies. The importance of building strong relationships that invite co-participation of children and adults in creating sustainable communities is promoted. Valuing the importance of responsive and reciprocal relationships that engage with local environments and cultural knowledge stories establishes the foundation for children to feel confident exploring and making meaning of their world. STEM promotes new interdisciplinary ways of solving authentic problems using scientific and mathematical ways of thinking. These create learning ecologies where children acquire the foundational skills for exploratory learning.

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this subject, students should be able to:

  • Illustrate and make visible Place, environments, and education for sustainability
  • Elucidate and enact the languages of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) that articulate deep, multimodal experiences in early childhood contexts
  • Identify, analyse and critically evaluate pedagogies for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) learning ecologies

Generic skills

In this subject, students will develop the following set of key transferable skills:

  • Problem solving
  • Evidence based decision making
  • Creativity and innovation
  • Learning to learn and metacognition
  • Responsiveness to a changing knowledge base
  • Linking theory and practice
  • Inquiry and research
  • Active and participatory citizenship

Last updated: 10 February 2024