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ICSE , the International Centre for STEM Education, is an association of Higher Education Institutions with STEM programmes, STEM teachers, STEM education authorities, and various other STEM sectors, which has been collaborating for years. In one of the current projects – STEMkey – the consortium introduces the EU’s Key Competence Framework for Lifelong Learning in programmes for future STEM teachers in 12 Higher Education Institutions across Europe. While doing that it has become very obvious, that female* students particularly respond to open tasks (for example approached through Inquiry Based Learning) which “use STEM to make a difference in the world”, e.g. using engineering to make protheses (while most male* students are often fascinated with the technology itself, rather than its societal relevance). In this context, socio-scientific issues (SSI) examined from multiple perspectives and involving skepticism when discussing potentially biased information has shown to be helpful. It can motivate girls to illustrate how STEM can make a difference and how scientific approaches and valid data collection often are the basis for solutions. Exemplary topics for SSI are climate change, data security and waste reduction. Sjøberg & Schreiner (2010) found that STEM fields which bear socially positive potential especially raise girls’ interests: Health and medicine, beauty and the human body, ethics, and aesthetics. Their findings support what could be observed during ICSE’s activities. ( ROSE Project)
This actually offers a huge variety of topics to inspire and encourage females* of alle ages to engage with STEM challenges and eventually engage with STEM studies and careers…
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The Key Competence Framework can actually support gender-neutral (STEM) Education considerably. The reason is that it sees a competence as a combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes. And this offers potential for a variety of topics (as described in my comment above) to be approached on a level which involves transversal skills and emotional aspects and mind-sets which goes hand in hand with such socio-scientific issues, for example.
Link to the EU’s Key Competence Framework for Lifelong Learning: https://op.europa.eu/de/publication-detail/-/publication/297a33c8-a1f3-…
Link to the STEMkey Project: https://icse.eu/international-projects/stemkey/
Link to the GEM Project (about Female STEMpowerment): https://icse.eu/cooperations/gem-network/
Link to the ROSE Project: https://roseproject.no/
But there is a lot of other projects, such as: https://femstem.eu/the-project/
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