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Sustainability through STEM and STEAM Education Creating Links with the Land for the Improvement of the Rural World

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  • Elisa Gavari-Starkie

    (Department of History of Education and Comparative Education, National Distance Education University (UNED), 28015 Madrid, Spain)

  • Patricia-Teresa Espinosa-Gutiérrez

    (International Doctoral School of the UNED (EIDUNED), National Distance Education University (UNED), 28040 Madrid, Spain
    Plant Production and Agrifood Quality Research Group (PROVECAv), St. Teresa of Jesus Catholic University of Avila (UCAV), 05005 Avila, Spain)

  • Cristina Lucini-Baquero

    (Plant Production and Agrifood Quality Research Group (PROVECAv), St. Teresa of Jesus Catholic University of Avila (UCAV), 05005 Avila, Spain)

Abstract

Rural environment is suffering from serious problems, as reflected in the term “Empty Spain”. One of these problems is the pronounced depopulation that rural areas suffer in our time, so creating links with the land thanks to education is of great interest for, among other things, establishing population in rural areas. Interdisciplinary education becomes relevant today as the necessary education in our current world capable of providing answers and solutions to the social demands of our time. Interdisciplinary STEM education had the United States of America as its cradle in the 1990s; later it passed to the acronym STEAM when the Arts were later introduced, this is how you find a true interdisciplinary education. Since 2010, government policies have been developed in the USA, highlighting the Educate to Innovate program and in that same country the STEM4SD Education program, which develops education for sustainability by creating links with the local population. Precisely, this article will collect the educational policies that have been carried out in the USA for the development of this type of education. In this article and thanks to the analysis of certain programs, the importance of interdisciplinary STEM and STEAM education in our days will be exposed for the promotion of sustainability directed towards sustainable development, thereby creating more sustainable societies made up of more sustainable citizens, highlighting the importance of education for sustainability through STEM and STEAM education creating links with the land for the improvement of the rural world, which means establishing population, among other aspects.

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  • Elisa Gavari-Starkie & Patricia-Teresa Espinosa-Gutiérrez & Cristina Lucini-Baquero, 2022. "Sustainability through STEM and STEAM Education Creating Links with the Land for the Improvement of the Rural World," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(10), pages 1-23, October.
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    1. Adesuwa Vanessa Agbedahin, 2019. "Sustainable development, Education for Sustainable Development, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Emergence, efficacy, eminence, and future," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 27(4), pages 669-680, July.
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    1. Patricia-Teresa Espinosa-Gutiérrez & Elisa Gavari-Starkie & Cristina Lucini-Baquero & Josep Pastrana-Huguet, 2025. "STEAM Education Using Natural Resources in Rural Areas: Case Study of a Grouped Rural School in Avila, Spain," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 17(6), pages 1-21, March.

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