Russell Tytler – författare

This book offers novel approaches, theoretical insights and results on the development of students’ and teachers’ interest in science as situated learning. It argues for the importance of the affective and emotional dimensions of teaching and learning in STEM classrooms in parallel to the cognitive dimensions.

Contributions to this book examine aesthetics, aesthetic judgement, and aesthetic experience in science education from the perspectives of researchers and practitioners and make a case for integrating aesthetics and affective experiences in science education teaching and learning research and practice. They explore how an aesthetics of science can empirically be observed to take shape through classroom interactions and how such interactions influence learning and how science is valued in aesthetic terms in relation to other practices. The research studies featured in this book span from preschool to undergraduate students, and also include a theoretical contribution reviewing and synthesising the methodological contributions to this volume. They draw on recent theoretical, methodological and empirical advances on the role of aesthetic experience for learning science. These new developments are used to investigate how a disciplinary aesthetics of science can be developed and can meet that of other subjects, and how these various aesthetic practices may be generatively dovetailed for the benefit of learning science and developing an interest in science. This book''s contribution extends beyond the fields of science education research. Its insights can assist policymakers, instructional designers, and teacher educators in considering emotional aspects of learning and values more generally when implementing strategies to foster meaning-making alongside sense-making. It was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Science Education.

This book offers novel approaches, theoretical insights and results on the development of students’ and teachers’ interest in science as situated learning. It argues for the importance of the affective and emotional dimensions of teaching and learning in STEM classrooms in parallel to the cognitive dimensions.

Contributions to this book examine aesthetics, aesthetic judgement, and aesthetic experience in science education from the perspectives of researchers and practitioners and make a case for integrating aesthetics and affective experiences in science education teaching and learning research and practice. They explore how an aesthetics of science can empirically be observed to take shape through classroom interactions and how such interactions influence learning and how science is valued in aesthetic terms in relation to other practices. The research studies featured in this book span from preschool to undergraduate students, and also include a theoretical contribution reviewing and synthesising the methodological contributions to this volume. They draw on recent theoretical, methodological and empirical advances on the role of aesthetic experience for learning science. These new developments are used to investigate how a disciplinary aesthetics of science can be developed and can meet that of other subjects, and how these various aesthetic practices may be generatively dovetailed for the benefit of learning science and developing an interest in science. This book''s contribution extends beyond the fields of science education research. Its insights can assist policymakers, instructional designers, and teacher educators in considering emotional aspects of learning and values more generally when implementing strategies to foster meaning-making alongside sense-making. It was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Science Education.

Across the world STEM (learning and work in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) has taken central importance in education and the economy in a way that few other disciplines have. STEM competence has become seen as key to higher productivity, technological adaptation and research-based innovation. No area of educational provision has a greater current importance than the STEM disciplines yet there is a surprising dearth of comprehensive and world-wide information about STEM policy, participation, programs and practice.

The Age of STEM is a state of the art survey of the global trends and major country initiatives in STEM. It gives an international overview of issues such as:

The individual chapters give comparative international analysis as well as a global overview, particularly focusing on the growing number of policies and practices in mobilising and developing talent in the STEM fields. The book will be of particular interest to anyone involved in educational policy, those in education management and leaders in both schooling and tertiary education. It will have a wider resonance among practitioners in the STEM disciplines, particularly at university level, and for those interested in contemporary public policy.

Across the world STEM (learning and work in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) has taken central importance in education and the economy in a way that few other disciplines have. STEM competence has become seen as key to higher productivity, technological adaptation and research-based innovation. No area of educational provision has a greater current importance than the STEM disciplines yet there is a surprising dearth of comprehensive and world-wide information about STEM policy, participation, programs and practice.

The Age of STEM is a state of the art survey of the global trends and major country initiatives in STEM. It gives an international overview of issues such as:

The individual chapters give comparative international analysis as well as a global overview, particularly focusing on the growing number of policies and practices in mobilising and developing talent in the STEM fields. The book will be of particular interest to anyone involved in educational policy, those in education management and leaders in both schooling and tertiary education. It will have a wider resonance among practitioners in the STEM disciplines, particularly at university level, and for those interested in contemporary public policy.