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LITERATURE REVIEW
Integrating and navigating STEAM (inSTEAM) in early childhood education: An integrative review and inSTEAM conceptual framework
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Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
Publication date: 2022-06-25
EURASIA J. Math., Sci Tech. Ed 2022;18(7):em2133
KEYWORDS
ABSTRACT
In early childhood education, the integration of science, technology, engineering, arts, and
mathematics (STEAM) are advocated as contemporary educational goals. However, integration of
STEAM is not defined in the early childhood context. We claim to ‘integrate’ and ‘devise
integration pedagogies’, but there is still no clear-cut message on what integration means and
how to do it. This paper presents an integrative literature review to conceptualize the integration
of STEAM practices in early childhood education. The review highlighted key factors and
challenges relating to STEAM integration. The paper concludes with the development of the
integrating and navigating STEAM (inSTEAM) conceptual framework derived from the concepts,
empirical research, and theories explored in the integrative review of the 17 articles.
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