Fostering Business Education Using Playful and STEAM Pedagogy

Abstract

STEAM educates children in science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics fields with an interdisciplinary approach, leading from an early age to adapt to an ever-changing world. This research proposes the use of recyclable materials that exist at home to create domestic laboratories for the development of scientific thinking that support the resolution of problems in daily life. The research methodology was based on data collection from 9 teachers and 130 eighth-year high school students. For data collection, a questionnaire on logical reasoning was applied, which evaluated the ability of students to respond to everyday situations and teachers were surveyed to find out if they use technological educational resources in classrooms. With the results obtained, it is proposed to develop: “Instruments for domestic laboratories.” The results aroused great interest in teachers and students when conducting a satisfaction survey, in which a high degree of motivation and interaction with the resources developed was obtained.