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What is STEAM Education?

STEAM education is the name give to an education model that focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics with a strong emphasis on integration between these core skills. STEAM initiatives are intended to prepare students for future work roles by helping them to develop creativity, innovation, leadership, and critical-thinking skills.

Science

Science teaches critical thinking skills, the search for truth, and highly transferrable problem-solving skills based on evidence and logical thought patterns.

Technology

With technology-related skills increasingly in demand, it is crucial that students learn to use technology from a young age and continue using it throughout their education.

Engineering

Engineering is becoming increasingly relevant in a rapidly developing world, with recent years seeing a sharp increase in demand for engineering skills to create the objects and infrastructure we rely on.

The Arts

The subjects contained within this field are able to teach people the value of creativity, innovation, communication, and contemplation. In addition, the arts can help to provide individuals with a greater appreciation for culture.

Mathematics

Mathematics helps to bind the other elements together as it is needed to solve problems in the fields of Science, Technology, and Engineering, while also providing structure to The Arts.

What is the difference between STEM and STEAM?

STEAM education, as a concept, emerged from the existing STEM initiative which was originally designed to emphasize the academic subjects that teach the most important life skills, while also encouraging more integrated lessons. Adding to the core of STEM education, the key difference of STEAM is the inclusion of the ‘A’ for the arts. 

It is worth taking the time to understand the importance of the arts in providing students with a rounded education. The subjects contained within this field are able to teach people the value of creativity, innovation, communication, and contemplation. In addition, the arts can help to provide individuals with a greater

What are the Arts?

The arts is a collective term, which is used to describe a range of different subject areas that are broadly considered to be artistic or otherwise creative in their nature. When the STEAM concept was originally, the arts were divided into a number of sub-categories by Georgette Yakman, and these can be briefly summarized as follows:
  • Fine Arts – The areas that are commonly covered by traditional art classes and based primarily on aesthetics, with examples including drawing, painting, sculpting, and photography.
  • Language Arts – Arts that revolve around the use of language and which are concerned with communication, with some key examples including English, foreign languages, sign language, and creative writing.
  • Physical Arts – Subjects and topics focused on physical activity, such as dance and sport.
  • Manual Arts – Art-based subjects that are centered around physical skills and the manipulation of objects, with some of the main examples including architecture and landscape design.
  • Liberal Arts – The broadest of the five sub-categories, covering some of the more typically academic subjects, with examples like philosophy, ethics, sociology, history, politics, civics, and theology.
 

The importance of the Arts

It is worth taking the time to understand the importance of the arts in providing students with a rounded education. The subjects contained within this field are able to teach people the value of creativity, innovation, communication, and contemplation. In addition, the arts can help to provide individuals with a greater appreciation for culture. The skills developed through the arts are often in high demand within the workforce, where creative solutions to problems may be needed and where different perspectives can be useful. The language arts are also vital for communication and, in the case of tthings like sign language, can help to provide people with greater accessibility. In many fields, artistry can be the difference between standing out from competitors or not, and this means those with skills in this area can be enormously beneficial for businesses and other organizations. Ingenuity is also needed across the board, and the skills and confidence to come up with ingenious ideas are often developed through the arts.

While the importance of the arts is clear, one of the big focuses of STEAM education is to facilitate integration. A good way to view this is via a quote from the late CEO and co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, who said the following: 

“It is in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough – that it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our hearts sing.”
Steve Jobs Co-Founder, Apple

Excerpt from “The Importance of The Arts in STEAM Education” Education Insights February 09, 2021.

View the full article here: https://www.viewsonic.com/library/education/the-importance-of-the-arts-in-steam-education/