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Öztürk, Ahsen – Design and Technology Education, 2021
This paper explores the ways in which the design thinking (DT) approach can be utilized in addressing the challenges of STEM education in K-12 education. The study is based on an extensive literature review about STEM education and the DT approach, and exploratory research conducted to understand the challenges and needs of STEM education in…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Design, Thinking Skills
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Thorsteinsson, Gisli; Kikkull, Andry – Design and Technology Education, 2019
This article examines the possibility of supporting craft education by incorporating knowledge students have gained via science lessons: such knowledge largely refers to the mathematics and physics taught in Estonian comprehensive schools. Results were gleaned from interviews with craft teachers in Estonia, in order to establish their attitudes to…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Handicrafts, Science Instruction, Mathematics Instruction
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Pöllänen, Sinikka; Pöllänen, Kari – Design and Technology Education, 2019
Continually increasing demands are being placed on the educational system to prepare students with technical skills due to the exponential implementation of information, technology and automation in the workforce. Students should work with design, problemsolving and computational methods and tools early on in their school lives in basic education…
Descriptors: Computation, Elementary Secondary Education, Programming, Foreign Countries
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Keane, Linda; Keane, Mark – Design and Technology Education, 2016
We live in a designed world. STEAM by Design presents a transdisciplinary approach to learning that challenges young minds with the task of making a better world. Learning today, like life, is dynamic, connected and engaging. STEAM (Science, Technology, Environment, Engineering, Art, and Math) teaching and learning integrates information in…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Design, Interdisciplinary Approach