This course is organized into three sections.
It first explores the history of ideas that promulgated and led to the debate, investigation, and adoption of the acronym STEM. The underlying reasons that led to a search for an integrated educational approach on the subjects included in STEM is studied from multiple perspectives.
In the second section, the pedagogical issues related to the integration of STEM subjects are examined in detail arguing that this integrated approach epistemologically and pedagogically is superior and more appropriate compared to the isolated silo approach to teaching and learning these subjects.
In the third section, STEM examples from different approaches such as problem-solving methodology, design, construction, and exploratory/discovery are presented, analyzed, and evaluated.