B Jacobs - Curriculum Perspectives, 2022 - Springer

Improving primary STEM education by integrating the Australian Curriculum.

Stem education interventions

Jacobs

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Excerpt

A report commissioned by the Australian Council of Educational Research in 2018 titled Challenges in STEM learning in Australian schools: Literature and policy review found that the Australian Curriculum is packaged in discrete disciplines and is not future facing. It concluded that “the goal is to see students working in an integrative way”(Timms et al. Australian Council for Educational Research, 2018, p. 2). Accordingly, this paper reports on the first phase of a design-based research (DBR) project which integrates learning around …