ABSTRACT
The best STEM education provides an interdisciplinary approach to learning, where rigorous academic concepts are coupled with real-world applications and students use STEM in contexts that make connections between school, community, work, and the wider world. Leaders in STEM education continue to broaden and deepen its scope and further transcend the fields of study beyond just a combination of the four disciplines to include the arts and humanities. Modern STEM education imparts not only skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, higher order thinking, design, and inference, but also behavioral competencies such as perseverance, adaptability, cooperation, organization, and responsibility. The article by Tzou et al. addresses the restorying of learning and becoming in and through STEM through transgenerational dialog and engagement. In contrast, the article by Buenrostro and Radinsky focuses on the restorying of STEM through a dialog between a student and a teacher, which then mediates future engagement with STEM in empowering ways for both.
