THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS REGARDING STEAM EDUCATION AT PRESCHOOL AGE

<doi>10.24250/jpe/2/2023/DFST/</doi>

Abstract

This article supports and promotes the introduction of
STEAM education in preschool education and its
advantages. Modern education is not a renunciation of
the valuable heritage of the past, but a restructuring of
its relationship with the future, a 180 degree turn of its
point of departure. STEAM education is a challenge of
the modern, technological world. Unlike the classical
lessons in the traditional system of education where the
teacher teaches the students, STEAM is an active,
applied and constructivist method of "learning by
doing". The children, regardless of their age, should be
encouraged to think deeply, so that they have the chance
to become innovators and leaders who can solve the
most pressing challenges facing our future. STEM and
STEAM projects put the foundations of an openness to
concepts that would normally come across a lot later
and much more theoretical. Postmodern education is
adapting day by day the needs of tomorrow's future
adults, the key to success being knowing how to adapt
and how to use what you have learned, for continuous
change and development.