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Exploring the Role of Stem Education in Preparing Students to Address Environmental and Social Challenges
This paper tries to see how interdisciplinary STEM education equips the student to cope with environmental and social challenges, specifically through the combination of curriculum content, skill development, and classroom problem-solving correlation with real-world needs. Through the mixed-method approach, it merges qualitative data collected through case studies, interviews, and focus groups with quantitative survey data from the perceptions of educators and students. The findings go to indicate how much STEM contributes to the development of problem-solving and critical thinking, but how this can be somehow challenged; within resource and time constraints in the implementation of interdisciplinary curricula. Research demands more project-based learning opportunities to make students more prepared to tackle the issues at hand.
