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STEM Education Research Group

The STEM Education Research Group is a collective of researchers, higher degree research students and organisation and industry partners who seek to invigorate and build and sustain strategic relationships that improve Australia's STEM Education.

STEM Education Research Group

We focus our attention on the principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion to inform fair and equitable STEM Education futures by becoming gender equitable, embracing ethnic and cultural diversity.

STEM Education Research Group

STEM Education research and practice is vital for Australians and the management of changing environments.

STEM Education Research Group

The STEM Education Research Group seeks to address and improve STEM Education because fewer Australian children, young people and adults are choosing to study STEM subjects. Finding out what approaches work best for different purposes and contexts is critical.

STEM Education Research Group

We continue to develop and provide transformative and culturally responsive research and practice with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and communities.

STEM Education Research Group

We focus our attention on the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion to inform fair and equitable STEM education futures.

Vision Statement

STEM education research for collective and societal benefit

Purpose

To provide transformative and responsive STEM Education Research highly relevant to our communities

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

In September of 2015, world leaders set an exciting course for the future of human development with the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 17 Global Goals that make up the SDG’s were designed to make sure that everyone is taken care of and no one is left behind. The Goals speak to the positivity and hope that the world has expressed towards what we all want for our collective future. The STEM Education Research Group contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Our research priorities

Early Childhood

STEM in Early Childhood Contexts explores the complexity of STEM learning and how STEM experiences for young learners are currently being implemented through application, discussion, and evaluation.

Entrepreneurship

STEM Entrepreneurship seeks to build research connectivity between education researchers, entrepreneurial thinkers, schools, and students to influence integrated approaches to STEM education.

Makerspaces

Makerspace aims to promote learning through construction using digital fabrication tools, computer programming, microcontrollers, as well as traditional hand tools and materials.

Emotion and Affect

Studies of Emotion and Affect in Education Laboratory (SEAEL) seeks to understand affective and emotional aspects of classroom life to enhance the conditions of teachers and students.

EthnoSTEAM and Equity

EthnoSTEAM and Equity is dedicated to research in STEAM Education particularly in contexts with little or no opportunities for investigation or exploration of contemporary issues and problems.

STEM Education

STEM Education works to remove traditional barriers between disciplinary areas, and investigate the linkages between teaching, learning and professional learning.