Book chapter
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths (STEM)
Encyclopedia of science education, pp.1-3
Springer
2015
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Abstract
Historically, science had a place in education before the time of Plato and Aristotle (e.g., Stonehenge). Technology gradually increased since early human inventions (e.g., indigenous tools and weapons), rose up dramatically through the industrial revolution and escalated exponentially during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, particularly with the advent of the Internet. Engineering accomplishments were evident in the constructs of early civil works, including roads and structural feats such as the Egyptian pyramids. Mathematics was not as clearly defined BC (Seeds 2010), but was utilized for more than two millennia (e.g., Archimedes, Kepler, and Newton) and paved its way into education as an essential scientific tool and a way of discovering new possibilities.
Details
- Title
- Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths (STEM)
- Creators
- Peter B. Hudson
- Contributors
- Richard Gunstone (Editor of compilation)
- Publication Details
- Encyclopedia of science education, pp.1-3
- Publisher
- Springer; Dordrecht
- Identifiers
- 2657; 991012821965202368
- Copyright
- © 2014 © Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Australia.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education; School of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter