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Tytler, Russell; Prain, Vaughan; Hobbs, Linda – Research in Science Education, 2021
Despite growing advocacy of interdisciplinary approaches to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), there are persistent concerns about the practical and principled epistemic bases on which this can be justified as a mainstream curricular practice. A major issue concerns the nature of interrelations between the STEM disciplines in…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, STEM Education, Models, Foreign Countries
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Woolnough, Jim – Research in Science Education, 2000
Describes a laboratory-based program in physics designed to help students build effective links between the mathematical equations used to solve problems in mechanics and the real world of moving objects. Conducts the study among senior college students and points out the value of laboratory work in science education for development of thinking…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach