Breaking Boundaries: Exploring Engineering Faculty Perceptions of Transdisciplinary STEM Education (80631)
Session Chair: Evgeny Pyshkin
Sunday, 14 July 2024 11:35
Session: Session 2
Room: G08 (Ground)
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
This research paper explores the perceptions of engineering faculty about transdisciplinary STEM education. The importance of transdisciplinary STEM education, where disciplinary boundaries dissolve, comes from the authenticity of learning when STEM is taught with real-world, ill defined, wicked problems. Where students find relevant and authentic solutions when learning by navigating between STEM disciplines as well as other disciplines. In this paper, the researcher interviewed five engineering faculty from three different engineering departments. The data shows that faculty’s understandings about transdisciplinary STEM education are related to the specific fields of engineering. Faculty from civil engineering and architecture use integrative STEM approach in several levels of integration. While in electrical engineering, STEM integration is less present and boundaries are more solid. The justification behind the different levels of integrations, according to the data, is the nature of the courses taught, and the nature of the field of engineering. This research will contribute to the on growing research about transdisciplinary STEM education and its importance in delivering authentic learning experience to students in all levels of education.
Authors:
Hebah Alamr, Prince Mohmmed bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Hebah Alamr is a University Assistant Professor/Lecturer at Prince Mohmmed bin Fahd University in Saudi Arabia
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