Challenge-Based and Community-Based Teaching and Learning in Engineering and STEM Education
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "STEM Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 May 2024) | Viewed by 15468
Special Issue Editors
Interests: engineering education; integrated subjects; teaching and learning approaches in higher education; challenge-based or problem-based pedagogical approaches; asset-based instructional frameworks for bilingual learners that encourage young students from diverse backgrounds to excel in mathematics and science courses; community-based and social justice research in engineering education
Interests: analyzing the acquisition of knowledge and the development of both disciplinary and transversal skills through teaching–learning processes using didactic techniques, such as challenge-based learning; research on STEM student development; research on approaches to lesson planning for successful instruction
Interests: active teaching and learning; fostering student engagement; interest; understanding and comprehension; project-based learning; problem-based learning; peer teaching; peer scaffolding; challenge-based learning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The fields of engineering education and STEM education continue to grow with the implementation of refined instructional approaches that use theoretical frameworks related to motivating youths to pursue STEM career paths and theories on how people learn. It should also be noted that the young generations of future engineers are socially aware and concerned about the diversity of communities.
Challenge-based teaching and learning form part of an active learning instructional strategy that has found much success across higher education settings. In addition, community-based learning is another instructional strategy intended to integrate student learning in engineering courses with community engagement opportunities.
Framed by the above context, this Special Issue is focused on important innovations of two kinds, which are as follows: (1) those described as challenge-based research initiatives; (2) those offered as community-based learning projects in higher education and (3) those research-based interventions that combine both challenge-based and community-based teaching and learning. Authors are encouraged to “tell their respective stories”, i.e., provide salient details about the specifications for the implementation design(s), need and opportunity, descriptions of the consequential choices made in the projects selected, and analysis of the impact data collected, if available.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but not limited to) the following:
- Challenge-based learning experiences in various fields of engineering (industrial, biomedical, mechanical, biotechnology, etc.);
- STEM education projects with underserved communities/community-based research;
- Community-based research approaches to learning and teaching engineering design;
- Engineering for the wellbeing of communities, social justice, and sustainability;
- Community-based engineering;
- Problem-based teaching and learning in various fields of engineering;
- Project-based teaching and learning in K-12 engineering and STEM education.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Araceli Martinez Ortiz
Prof. Dr. Jorge Membrillo-Hernández
Dr. Anthony S. Torres
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- engineering education
- STEM education
- active-based
- challenge-based
- teaching
- community-based
- learning
- engineering
- design
- diversity
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