STEAM Through Sensory-Based Action-Reaction Learning

Abstract

This chapter describes and illustrates how children experience Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics learning holistically, and in an integrated fashion. It introduces children's sensory-based, action-reaction learning, providing insight into how the individual disciplines of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) work together to support creative thinking, problem solving, decision-making and the integration of ideas and interests. Framed within the socio-constructivist paradigm, learning is discussed in terms of multi-modal engagement that stimulates in-depth inquiry. The chapter begins by describing how children's perceptual and sensory thinking ca..