STEM education

STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) defines a direction in education that is necessary in a knowledge-based informational society. The sphere of reference of STEM education highlights its pedagogical quality as: a) a special type of curricular area; b) a pedagogical model for inter-/pluri-/multi-/transdisciplinary integration; c) a special complex scholarly competence – experimental, applied, logical-mathematical); d) specific content in the sphere of “new educations”. Objectively, the general function of STEM education is to pedagogically integrate the theoretical and applied knowledge from all the fields it encompasses. The basic structure, which corresponds to the general function, concerns the correlation between scientific competence (experimental, applied, logical-mathematical) and the component parts that support its formation and development at the level of the product obtained between theoretical and applied knowledge and attitudes as related to the general values of scientific truth and the utility of applied scientific truth