Collection

STEM and teaching engineering design

Submission status
Open
Open for submission from
05 March 2024
Submission deadline
31 December 2025

Collections represent a chance for Editors to gather related papers on a topic of contemporary interest to the RISE readership and the wider science education research community. The current collection presents previously published papers that highlight key issues pertaining to STEM and engineering or design processes, in particular how teachers organize for instruction and how students experience this. The collection takes a focus on the issue of how teachers learn about STEM and importantly, how they translate those understandings into classroom practice. The set includes (relatively) recent papers from RISE to look collectively at conceptions of STEM as interdisciplinary and how teachers have taken up the challenge presented by the public and political rhetoric to grow the ‘STEM pipeline’. More particularly, the collection represents a sampling of teachers and teaching approaches across the preschool/early years sector into the junior high/intermediate levels of schooling. We encourage interested readers to follow the cited references and more recent research to explore the area and help to develop this field further.

Editors

  • Tang Kok-Sing Tang Kok-Sing , 

    Tang Kok-Sing

    Kok-Sing Tang is Director of Graduate Research and Associate Professor in the School of Education at Curtin University. He holds a BA and MSc in Physics from the University of Cambridge and a MA and PhD in Education from the University of Michigan. His research examines the role of language, discourse, and multimodality in supporting scientific literacy, and more recently in generative AI. Kok-Sing is a founding leader of the ESERA Special Interest Group Languages & Literacies in Science Education.

  • Wendy Nielsen Wendy Nielsen , 

    Wendy Nielsen

    Wendy Nielsen is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Wollongong. She holds a B.Sc. and Secondary Life Science Teaching Certification from California Lutheran University and MA and PhD from the University of British Columbia. Her research is primarily focused on primary preservice teacher learning and in particular, using digital technologies for learning while generating multiple representations and creating digital explanations. Recent work involves helping science teachers integrate literacy activities to enhance students’ writing skills in science.

  • Sasithep “Peter” Pitiporntapin Sasithep “Peter” Pitiporntapin  &

    Sasithep “Peter” Pitiporntapin

    Sasithep Pitiporntapin is Associate Professor of in Faculty of Education at Kasetsart University, Thailand. He holds a B.Sc. (First class honors) in Biology and PhD in Science Education from Kasetsart University. His research interests focus on outdoor learning for STEM and STEM literacy.

  • Pattranan “Jeannie” Vaidyakula Pattranan “Jeannie” Vaidyakula

    Pattranan “Jeannie” Vaidyakula

    Pattranan Vaidyakula is a PhD Student in Faculty of Education at Kasetsart University. She holds a B.S. in medical science from Naresuan University and M.Ed. Innovation in learning and teaching from Sripatum University. Her research interests focus on STEM teaching competency and outdoor STEM learning. Moreover, she is also interested in STEAM in early childhood education.

Articles (10 in this collection)