Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v25i1.4660
About STEAM and Possibilities of Its Application in the Teaching Process from the Perspective of Fine and Visual Arts
Marina Đira
orcid.org/0009-0009-8081-7419
; University of Zadar, Department of Teacher and Preschool Teacher Education
Abstract
This paper is a result of research which was presented for the first time at a meeting of the Visual Arts Teachers County Council in Zadar, on March 12, 2021, under the title STEAM and Fine and Visual Arts Education. At the time, the research was presented in its incomplete, unpublished form. Within the research, STEAM was examined as a teaching approach which incorporates STEM areas, arts and humanities. That is why emphasis is primarily placed on STEM and the context it originated from, and then on STEAM, which was an upgrade from STEM in the same education system in the USA. Specific features of STEAM are cooperation, transdisciplinarity and creative process. Possibilities of integration of STEAM into the teaching process are being analysed, as it fits cross-curricular topics which are promoted in various guidelines in the field of education in Croatia. With regard to that, the paper presents a research on the application of STEAM in the teaching process. The implementation of STEAM was based on “STEM and ART go hand in hand!”, a workshop held at the 17th Science Festival organized with the students at the University of Zadar, in 2019. In that workshop, the areas of STEM, art and humanities were merged to create an interactive art installation Your uncertain shadow (colour), created using light (colour) and movement, by a famous artist Olafur Eliasson.
Keywords
additive colour mixing; method of aesthetic transfer; Olafur Eliasson; STEM; transdisciplinarity
Hrčak ID:
302999
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Publication date:
29.3.2023.
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