STEM Education on the Road of Socially-Engaged Scholarship: Game Changer for Future Learning

Abstract

STEM Education on the Road of Socially-Engaged Scholarship: Game Changer for Future Learning

This article portrays the synthesizing of author’s experienced Socially-Engaged Scholarship in the field of STEM education which is considered as the game-changer of transforming STEM Education from theory into practice. It emphasizes on the partnership network among universities, involving organizations, academic service areas and schools, in light of institutional level which were reflected on the personnel level including university instructors, involving organization educators, teacher supervisors, in-service and pre-service teachers. This article also discusses theoretical framework related to STEM teacher professional development into practice. Furthermore, the innovation as a tool for designing and developing STEM activity is also exemplified as well as the network establishment model of “Community of Practice, CoP” that proliferates the stakeholders to sustain the STEM education development.