STEM Education Foundations

Catalog description

Prerequisite: Admission to doctoral program. Introduction to the educational, political, economic, and socio-cultural foundations of the STEM and STEM education disciplines including the history and development of STEM education with attention to the STEM content in P-16 settings. Topics include: introduction to the nature of each of the STEM and STEM education disciplines; investigation of related political, economic, and socio-cultural foundations; and frameworks for constructing personal perspectives and philosophies of integrative STEM education.