STEM refers to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. It is now argued that there is a need to add Art & design to this and transform STEM to STEAM. This is something which I definitely agree with. The objectives of the STEAM movement are to transform research policy to place Art & Design at the centre of STEM, encourage the integration of Art and Design in education & influence employers to hire artists and designers. Through studying integrated arts and through placement etc I definitely think the Arts are greatly important within education.

Within this session we had a class discussion about how we felt about STEM to STEAM and had a look at a local festival which incorporated STEAM and considered how the arts were being integrated.

Towards the end of this session we continued our evocative object pieces. Thinking back to the words we accompanied our objects with, we encompassed these within a drawing.