Aesthetics to Social Justice: Current Uses and Future Visions of the Arts in STEAM Education

• In Event: Engaging With the Epistemology and Ontology of Science Teaching

Abstract

This paper examines STEAM educational practices from selected literature on STEM and Science Education scholarship. Through an examination of the intersections between art and science, most reports visualization, beauty and creativity with limited foci on well-being for individuals, societies and environments through lenses of social justice and sustainability. Through a mixed method approach these empirical examples were categorized on the basis of their foci for art integration. We also drew on values inherent to a science education framework such as: place, skills, power, semiotics, reductionism, World↔Sign, de-punctualization, metacognition, Actor-Network Theory, and dispositifs to aid in the categorization. Data were collected during weekly meetings of a research collective as we examined the uptake of arts integration in STEAM education and analysed the patterns.

Authors

• Sheliza Ibrahim, University of Toronto Mississauga
  Presenting Author

• Dave Del Gobbo, Peel District School
  Presenting Author

• Sarah El Halwany, ntario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto OISE
  Non-Presenting Author

• Gonzalo Guerrero Hernandez
  Non-Presenting Author

• Nicole Kofman
  Non-Presenting Author

• Majd Zouda, OISE - University of Toronto
  Non-Presenting Author

• John Lawrence Bencze, OISE/University of Toronto
  Non-Presenting Author