美国STEAM教育的发展脉络、 特点与主要经验

At present, STEAM Education has been regarded, by quite a few nations, as an important approach to cultivate innovative and interdisciplinary talents and enhance national competitiveness. Originated from the United States, STEAM Education has roughly gone through three stages of development, namely STS, STEM, and STEAM. American STEAM Education sets up a paradigm which can be characterized in three aspects: concentrating on real-world problems, developing solutions via Project Design Process, students conducting open exploration during the process of cooperative learning, trying multiple ideas and daring to be wrong which are taken as necessary parts of learning, etc. In order to improve the effective implementation of STEAM Education, the United States upgrades STEAM Education to the national strategic level. Under such a plan, American government has issued a series of policies and acts related to STEAM education, including constant increase on the financial support, constructed an integrate STEAM Education