STEM literacy questionnaire as an instrument for STEM education research field: Development, implementation and utility

Research field of migration has been developing for a long time parallel to and outside mainstream institutional academic sociology and its theoretical foundation. In the last two decades, within the field of migration studies, one specific aspect of the phenomena came to the research focus: gender, as significant factor that influences on motivation for migration, shaping, at the same time, its characteristics and specific experiences. With decisive breakthrough of qualitative methods in social sciences and humanities, as well as with gradual development of postmodern philosophy and feminist theory, gender migration studies have been established as research sub-discipline, with its own theoretical and categorical scientific apparatus (as well as institutional-academic grounding), managing more or less successfully to explain and understand multidimensional character of migration processes. This text represents an attempt to make relatively concise overview of disciplines? historical, theoretical and research field development, as a first step in its broader affirmation within Serbian institutional sociology.

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Seven years of development as building a foundation for the journal’s leadership in promoting STEM education internationally

International Journal of STEM Education ◽

10.1186/s40594-021-00316-w ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Yeping Li

Keyword(s):

Education Research ◽

Stem Education ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Future Developments

AbstractThe International Journal of STEM Education went through seven publication cycle years from August 2014 to July 2021. The journal’s performance has consistently reflected the rapid development in STEM education research internationally. In this editorial, I share the journal’s performance since August 2020 and discuss possible future developments.

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Breaking Down Silos Working Meeting: An Approach to Fostering Cross-Disciplinary STEM–DBER Collaborations through Working Meetings

CBE—Life Sciences Education ◽

10.1187/cbe.19-03-0064 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. mr3

Author(s):

Daniel L. Reinholz ◽

Tessa C. Andrews

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Education Research ◽

Stem Education ◽

Research Priorities ◽

Deep Understanding ◽

Institutional Transformation ◽

Stem Fields ◽

Professional Societies ◽

Science Technology ◽

And Mathematics

There has been a recent push for greater collaboration across the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields in discipline-based education research (DBER). The DBER fields are unique in that they require a deep understanding of both disciplinary content and educational research. DBER scholars are generally trained and hold professional positions in discipline-specific departments. The professional societies with which DBER scholars are most closely aligned are also often discipline specific. This frequently results in DBER researchers working in silos. At the same time, there are many cross-cutting issues across DBER research in higher education, and DBER researchers across disciplines can benefit greatly from cross-disciplinary collaborations. This report describes the Breaking Down Silos working meeting, which was a short, focused meeting intentionally designed to foster such collaborations. The focus of Breaking Down Silos was institutional transformation in STEM education, but we describe the ways the overall meeting design and structure could be a useful model for fostering cross-disciplinary collaborations around other research priorities of the DBER community. We describe our approach to meeting recruitment, premeeting work, and inclusive meeting design. We also highlight early outcomes from our perspective and the perspectives of the meeting participants.

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