Meet the editor

Dr Kehdinga started his career as an English Language and Literature teacher in the College of Hopes Arts and Science. After joining the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), he was appointed a Lecturer in the School of Education, where he taught both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. In 2016 he moved to the Higher Education Training and Development Unit within the same university where he focused on training Masters and

PhD students on research skills and later joined the Durban University of Technology as a Research Fellow. He currently works for Mangosuthu University of Technology. He has published several scientific papers on STEM education, curriculum studies, and teaching and learning amongst others. He has supervised more than 22 posgraduate students to completion and has published more than 35 peer-reviewed research articles.

Contents

**Section 1**

Society

**Section 2**

and Prospects

STEM Learning

*by Moses Makgato*

*by Bing Wei and Yue Chen*

*by Kehdinga George Fomunyam*

*and Francisco Luis Naranjo-Correa*

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Theorising the Interdisciplinary STEM **9**

**Chapter 2 11**

**Chapter 3 29**

**Chapter 4 45**

**Chapter 5 57**

**Chapter 6 75**

**Chapter 7 89**

STEM for Sustainable Skills for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Snapshot

Gender Equity in STEM Education: The Case of an Egyptian Girls' School

Introductory Chapter: Theorising STEM Education in the Contemporary

Implementation and Didactic Validation of STEM Experiences in Primary

Education: Analysis of the Cognitive and Affective Dimension *by Guadalupe Martínez-Borreguero, Milagros Mateos-Núñez* 

Inverse Modeling Problems in Task Enrichment for STEM Courses *by Victor Martinez-Luaces, José Antonio Fernández-Plaza and Luis Rico*

Integrated STEM Education in K-12: Theory Development, Status,

'Making' as a Catalyst for Engaging Young Female Adolescents in

*by Karen Hyllegard, Jennifer Ogle and Sonali Diddi*

*by Mohamed El Nagdi and Gillian Heather Roehrig*

at Some TVET Colleges in South Africa
