Global Perspectives on Stem Education: Theory and Practice

Dr. Isha DeCoito is an Associate Professor of STEM Education, cross-appointed to Science at Western University in Canada. Her research spans varied educational contexts including medical programs, school gardens, refugee camps, Indigenous communities, outreach programs, teacher education programs, universities, and school boards. Her research focuses on STEM engagement and STEM career aspirations amongst girls and underrepresented populations, experiential learning, educational technologies (e.g., digital video games, virtual reality), engineering and medical education, professional development, and nature of science conceptions, with a goal of creating equitable and better opportunities for all students.

Dr. Xavier Fazio is a Professor of Science and Environmental Sustainability Education at Brock University in Canada. His research and graduate and undergraduate teaching broadly focuses on science and environmental sustainability education, systems thinking and sustainability, teacher education and development, curricular innovation, instruction, and assessment approaches in STEM education for elementary, secondary, and post-secondary contexts.

Dr. Jane Gichuru is an educator in Curriculum and Instruction, and global education in Canada. Her research experience includes the education of immigrant and refugee youth in Canada. She has worked with Dr. DeCoito in the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) international research project, knowledge syntheses on the Digital Gap: Access, Innovation & Impact on Aboriginal communities' access to digital technologies; STEM initiatives across Canada, and most recently, on a STEM curriculum review.

Dr. Isha DeCoito是加拿大西部大學的STEM教育副教授，兼任科學部門。她的研究涵蓋多種教育背景，包括醫學課程、學校園藝、難民營、土著社區、外展計劃、教師教育計劃、大學和學校董事會。她的研究重點是女孩和弱勢群體在STEM領域的參與和職業志向、體驗式學習、教育技術（例如數字視頻遊戲、虛擬現實）、工程和醫學教育、專業發展以及科學概念的本質，旨在為所有學生創造公平和更好的機會。

Dr. Xavier Fazio是加拿大布魯克大學的科學和環境可持續教育教授。他的研究和研究生和本科教學廣泛關注科學和環境可持續教育、系統思維和可持續性、教師教育和發展、課程創新、教學和評估方法在小學、中學和高等教育的STEM教育中的應用。

Dr. Jane Gichuru是加拿大的課程與教學以及全球教育教育家。她的研究經驗包括加拿大移民和難民青年的教育。她曾與Dr. DeCoito合作參與無國界高等教育為難民（BHER）國際研究項目，對數字鴻溝進行知識綜合：對土著社區獲取數字技術的影響和創新；加拿大各地的STEM倡議，以及最近的STEM課程評估。