ELEMENTS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STEM/STEAM APPROACH IN EDUCATION IN COLOMBIA

Abstract

This article presents a documentary review in Scielo databases in order to identify the tacit elements in the implementation of the STEAM approach in education in Colombia. Among these: intentions in teaching and learning, applied didactics for active learning purposes, and the representation of ICT. It should be noted that the selection of the reviewed documents obeyed the information of relevance in terms of the importance and knowledge it provides, considering that STEAM has an integrative perspective whose purpose is to promote the interest and meaning of students for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics from the development of competencies, valuable and substantial skills and abilities in areas of science.   One of the elements that have to be referred to is the challenge or technological intellectual challenge in which the STEAM approach is inserted for both teachers and students, to first discover ways of getting involved, learning styles, complexities of teaching, capacity for collaboration, mastery of concepts. It involves proposing content using experiences that encourage the development of skills.