STEM教师教育的现实挑战与应对策略——访澳大利亚社会科学院院士Lyn English教授

The “China STEM Education White Paper” points out that STEM education has entered a booming stage in China, but there are also severe challenges. Among them, the low level of the overall STEM teacher ranks is one of the fundamental issues that need to be urgently addressed. In fact, the STEM teacher ranks and teacher education of most countries in the world all face many challenges, and this directly influences the quality of STEM education. Therefore, it is the key to promote the high-quality development of STEM education to clarify the main problems of STEM teacher education and find possible countermeasures. Professor Lyn English is an internationally renowned scholar in the fields of STEM education, mathematics education and engineering education. She currently teaches at the School of Teacher Education and Leadership, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Engineering Education at Purdue University, a senior adjunct research scientist of