In this age of innovation, many countries around the world, including global economic powers such as the United States and countries in the European Union (EU) are transforming their educational systems to be more technologically competitive. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is at the core of both American and EU innovation strategies. Innovation strategies, such as the Strategy for American Innovation, provide a vision for policy makers and a motivation for public and private organizations to raise interest to further education in STEM disciplines. Likewise, these strategies promote interest in careers in STEM disciplines and STEM teaching (several examples exist in the EU context, such as Scientix, InGenious and European Schoolnet). The ultimate goal of policymakers in the U.S. and EU is to increase the quantity and quality of teachers so that more well-educated teachers can help more students develop 21st century skills, building their capacity to become more innovative. STEM education includes the knowledge and skills that are collaboratively constructed at the intersection of more than one STEM subject area. The teaching knowledge needed to foster STEM education is not well-defined. The mission of this Task Force on STEM education (TSTEM) is to investigate the teaching knowledge needed for integrating school mathematics into science, technology, and engineering disciplines at the school level (integrated teaching knowledge), and to gain a better understanding of how such knowledge develops as a result of theory and praxis. In addition to the founding members, several other researchers and teacher educators from countries across Europe are collaborating within TSTEM to achieve this common goal. |
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