This event was hosted by four SIGs: STEAM Education, Creativities in Education, Arts-based Education, and Race and Ethnicity and Education Research. It invited delegates to engage with a panel of academics spanning the Sciences and Arts to explore the following questions:
1. What do we mean by STEAM?
2. What interconnectivity between creativity, the arts and sciences does STEAM enable, (if ‘the sciences’ is accepted as a proxy for physics, biology, chemistry, technology, engineering and maths)?
3. What benefits can an intersectional lens in STEAM bring to education?
4. What is the value of STEAM for educators in practice?
Each of the panel members recorded an 8/10-minute presentations in response to the provocation ‘What does STEAM education signify for you as an educator and educational researcher?’. These were published online before the event, in early August.
Convenors facilitated a curated response from panel speakers to issues prompted from the recordings in response to the questions.
Event participants joined a discussion group with panel speakers and SIG convenors. This was an opportunity to pursue questions and ideas and to help set the agenda for how the BERA SIGs take STEAM education research forward.
It is anticipated that the open questions above will raise and initiate debate in a range of area such as inter/transdisciplinarity, intersectionality and inclusivity, cultures for and practices of learning with attention to the role of the arts, and the contribution of creativity in STEAM education.
Programme:
| 14:00 | Welcome and Introduction Jo Trowsdale, Birmingham Newman University |
| 14:10 | Panel Discussion Amanda McCrory, University College London Victoria Kinsella, Birmingham City University Hendra Agustian, University of Copenhagen Saima Salehjee, University of Glasgow Francesca Arrigoni, Kingston University Rory McDonald, Liverpool John Moore’s University Jo Trowsdale, Birmingham Newman University Kerry Chappell, University of Exeter Mark Boylan, Sheffield Hallam University |
| 15:10 | Participant Discussion Groups |
| 15:40 | Plenary |
| 16:00 | Break |
| 16:15 | Anna Craft Memorial Lecture: ‘Rewilding Anna Craft’s legacy: a plurality of past, present and future-making creatives’ Pam Burnard, University of Cambridge |
| 17:15 | Event Close |
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Reader in Arts, Creativity and Education at Birmingham City University
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Associate Professor at University of Exeter
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Senior Lecturer in Education at Brunel University
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Associate Professor of Ethics in Science Education at Institute of Education, University College London
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