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Re: STEM vs. STEAM
Adding "art" to "STEM" has always struck me as a sort of silly attempt at saying "me, too!"
Look: Sure, art is important. That doesn't mean we need to talk about art whenever we talk about STEM. "STEAM" is a term that, to me, seems so broad as to be nearly useless (and, not-unrelatedly, suffers from a serious case of "one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-others") - STEM and art don't actually have very much in common and the issues surrounding STEM education and art education are fundamentally different and need to be addressed separately.
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Last edited by Oblarg : 21-09-2016 at 12:09.
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