Open AccessChallenges and issues of STEM education
Author(s) -
Anjum Qureshi,
Nazir Qureshi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
advances in mobile learning educational research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2737-5676
DOI - 10.25082/amler.2021.02.009
Subject(s) - popularity , globalization , modernization theory , grasp , engineering ethics , mathematics education , early childhood , political science , computer science , psychology , engineering , developmental psychology , law , programming language
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, abbreviated as STEM, is a promising field with increasing popularity due to its benefits in the modern world of globalization and modernization. Science and mathematics are the basics of the technological developments going on in the world. Thus, the children should be motivated to learn STEM from early school days. The minds of small kids are like a sponge, and they can grasp everything quickly. STEM education should be encouraged from childhood so that children like it and continue with it for higher education. This chapter discusses some of the challenges observed while encouraging children to learn STEM early and lists solutions.