The Role of STEM in Curriculum Change

Abstract

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in the 21st century is keyed to curriculum change because of the dynamism of the global village through technological and developmental processes. As a result of this, the STEM curriculum is essential to produce graduates that have an integrated knowledge of science and technology which the 21st century society and industries need for proper technological and developmental growth of the global village.
STEM curriculum is an integrated and the total of all the learning experiences, through activities and experimentation which the learner is provided with, or acquires at school. This STEM curriculum drives the learning processes of the students to cover equally, the affective, cognitive and psychomotor domains of learning, thereby making the education of the students to be functional. Functional Education (FE) is the type of education that is supposed to produce graduates who are job, and wealth creators and not job or wealth seekers.