A Study on Multiple Practice Paths for STEM Education in American Universities:Based on the Perspective of Self-organization Theory
As the first country to advocate STEM education,the United States has accumulated rich practical experience in STEM higher education.This paper uses the theory of self-organization to investigate the STEM education practices of three different types of colleges and universities:research universities,regional comprehensive universities,and community colleges in the United States,and finds that they all show significant characteristics of self-organization in the three dimensions of development orientation,participation subjects and their resource integration,and curriculum teaching,which are manifested as non-equilibrium,openness,and fluctuation phenomenon,respectively.STEM education in American colleges and universities has formed a diversified practice path,and built an effective STEM higher education system,giving full play to the role of self-organization,self-ordered,and coordinated development,and promoting the development and reform of STEM education.At the same time,it is necessary to be vigilant against social equity problems such as the underrepresentation of disadvantaged groups in the operation of the self-organization system of STEM higher education,in order to provide experience for the development of STEM higher education in China.
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