INCULCATING VALUES AND ETHICS AMONG STUDENTS THROUGH STEAM EDUCATION

Abstract

 STEAM Education is an approach to learning that  uses Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and  Mathematics as access points for guiding student inquiry,  dialogue, and critical thinking. Research shows that STEAM is a promising approach to positively impacting student  achievement and teacher efficacy. A researcher’s study conducted in 2016, investigated the impact of STEAM lessons on physical science learning in grades 3 to 5 in high poverty elementary schools in an urban district indicated that students who received just nine hours of STEAM instruction made improvements in their science achievement. Another study in 2014 shows that connecting STEAM and literacy can positively impact cognitive development, increase literacy and math skills, and help students reflect meaningfully on their work and that of their peers . This is further supported by a study on the relationship between theatre arts and student literacy and mathematics achievement from 2014. “Results showed that students whose language arts curricula were infused with theatre arts often outperformed their control group counterparts, who received no arts integration, in both math and language arts”. The writer in this paper would like to give importance to STEAM education to the present generation children who are highly intelligent with less patience, discipline  and values whose main aim is to not only provide students with the knowledge others. This clause establishes a basis for applying integrative education.