"Theorizing STEM Education in the 21st Century" ed. by Kehdinga George Fomunyam

This volume captures the essence of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and the intricacies of STEM education in the contemporary society. It explores STEM as an interdisciplinary field as well as the individual disciplines that make up STEM. This ensures the field of STEM as a whole is theorised.

The book provides critical insight on STEM education from Cairo to Cape Town or from America to Indonesia. With a team of authors from universities across the world, the book is a vital contribution to critical scholarship on STEM education in contemporary times.

Contents
1.Introductory Chapter: Theorising STEM Education in the Contemporary Society
2.Implementation and Didactic Validation of STEM Experiences in Primary Education: Analysis of the Cognitive and Affective Dimension
3.Inverse Modeling Problems in Task Enrichment for STEM Courses
4.Integrated STEM Education in K-12: Theory Development, Status, and Prospects
5.‘Making’ as a Catalyst for Engaging Young Female Adolescents in STEM Learning
6.STEM for Sustainable Skills for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Snapshot at Some TVET Colleges in South Africa
7.Gender Equity in STEM Education: The Case of an Egyptian Girls’ School
8.A Theoretical Framework for Implementing STEM Education
9.Formative Assessment in Mathematics Education in the Twenty-First Century
10.Towards a Forward-Thinking College Calculus Program
11.The Role of Mathematical Modeling in STEM Integration and Education
12.Discipline, Task and Reader Characteristics of Introductory Physics Students’ Graph Comprehension in Mathematics and Kinematics
13.Implementation of Elliptic Curve25519 in Cryptography
14.Programme Integrating Courses Making Engineering Students Reflect