The Influence of STEAM Education on the Improvment of Students’ Creative Thinking

DOI

10.2991/icadce-18.2018.200How to use a DOI?

Keywords

STEAM education; innovation; interdisciplinary education

Abstract

Interdisciplinary education is the cornerstone of cutting-edge science and the source of hi-tech. STEAM education is an effective means of interdisciplinary education, and innovation is a necessary complement to interdisciplinary education. STEAM education stems from STEM education and is better than STEM education, emphasizing on interdisciplinary methods and cultivating students’ innovative abilities. The interdisciplinary education has a good effect on improving students' innovative ability. This paper first introduces the basic concepts of STEAM education, and then analyzes the impact of STEAM education on students' innovation ability. Finally, it discusses the implementation of STEAM education in teaching from several aspects: cultivating students' innovative ability from an interdisciplinary perspective, carrying out practical projects to improve students' innovative ability, and cultivating students' innovative ability to solve practical problems.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Weilin Li
AU  - Guocheng Li
AU  - Weijian Mo
AU  - Jia Li
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - The Influence of STEAM Education on the Improvment of Students’ Creative Thinking
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 924
EP  - 927
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icadce-18.2018.200
DO  - 10.2991/icadce-18.2018.200
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