A Journey from STEM to STEAM: A Middle School Case Study. Issue 4 (2nd September 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hunter-Doniger, Tracey; Sydow, Lindsey
• Is Part Of: Clearing house. Volume 89:Issue 4/5(2016)
• Page Start: 159
• Page End: 166
• Publication Date: 2016-09-02
• Subjects: STEAM -- middle school -- perception; Education -- Periodicals; Junior high schools -- Periodicals; Education, Secondary -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 373.05
• DOI: 10.1080/00098655.2016.1170461
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0009-8655

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article examines the initial journey of a middle school in South Carolina from a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) curriculum to a STEAM (STEM + art) curriculum. This is the first of a three-year longitudinal study that investigated the perceptions of the effectiveness, relative importance, and sustainability of a STEAM curriculum in which the arts animated learning on a daily basis for both teachers and administrators during the first year of implementation beginning in the fall 2014. The article also investigates the response that the faculty of a STEM-oriented middle school had to the induction of STEAM curriculum training.