Designing the Future Workforce through STEAM Education

Learning in interdisciplinary spaces is key for generating new models of thinking (Aboelela et al., 2007, p. 341 in Tobi & Kampen, 2018); interdisciplinary thinking nurtures creativity and a critical enquiry of social challenges thanks to the entanglement of languages, mindsets, cultures and practices (Fitzgerald & Callard, 2016) (Figure 4.1). Such a space emerges when two or more disciplines integrate each other's concepts, methods, theories, and even epistemologies in the creation of a reciprocal hybrid practice (Jones, 2010), and when the experience of boundary learning (Ferrarello & Dormor, 2021) is elicited; this means learning in groups by sharing, discussing, and negotiating knowledge to integrate and enhance individual disciplinary notions.