The Structures of STEM Education: A Macro, Meso and Micro Analysis of Learning Outcomes

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Tang Wee Teo (NIE, Singapore)

The Structures of STEM Education

A Macro, Meso and Micro Analysis of Learning Outcomes

Tang Wee Teo (NIE, Singapore)

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Routledge
18 December 2025

Secondary schools; Teaching skills & techniques; Teaching of a specific subject

Series: Routledge Research in STEM Education

STEM education is shaped by interconnected macro, meso, and micro structures that impact curriculum design, teaching practices, and learning outcomes. This book explores three distinctive STEM programmes, offering practical insights for educators, researchers, and policymakers to design, plan, and implement effective STEM opportunities that drive meaningful, transformative education.

The first programme, Code to Sew, showcases a university-industry-school partnership that bridges the private-public spaces to foster innovative learning. The second programme, EPIC-STEM, takes an ecosystemic approach to building students’ STEM capital through the affordance of multiple epistemic infrastructures—hackathons, consultative STEM inquiry, symposia, internships, and learning journeys—providing a scalable model across local school clusters. The third programme transcends national boundaries, enhancing teachers’ capacities for STEM curriculum development with cognisance and sensitivities to the partnering country’s digital transformation, education reforms, and local needs.

This book is an essential resource for readers from academic or scholarly policy-making backgrounds aiming to gain deeper insights into the interconnected Structures of STEM education and how they shape meaningful, transferable learning experiences for both educators and learners.

By: Tang Wee Teo (NIE Singapore)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032541549
ISBN 10: 1032541547
Series: Routledge Research in STEM Education
Pages: 218
Publication Date: 18 December 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

List of Figures List of Tables Foreword 1 Foreword 2 Foreword 3 Preface Acknowledgements Declarations SECTION A: INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction to STEM education 2. Theoretical Framework SECTION B: UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY STEM PARTNERSHIP 3. University-industry partnership in STEM education 4. (Micro) vignettes: Developing understanding about materials 5. (Micro) vignettes: Digital coding and sewing 6. (Micro) vignettes: Digital embroidery and sewing 7. (Macro-meso-micro) Structures of Code to Sew SECTION B SUMMARY SECTION C: LOCAL ECOSYSTEMIC STEM EDUCATION 8. Building a local STEM ecosystem 9. (Meso and micro) Structures of the EPIC-STEM hackathon 10. (Meso and micro) Structures of the EPIC-STEM inquiry projects 11. (Meso and micro) Structures of the EPIC-STEM student symposium SECTION C SUMMARY SECTION D: REGIONAL STEM EDUCATION 12. (Macro) Structures of STEM education in Asia 13. (Meso) Structures of Indonesia’s education system 14. (Micro) Structures of STEM teacher capacity building in Indonesia SECTION D SUMMARY SECTION E: IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSION 15. Implications and conclusion Index

Tang Wee Teo, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is the Head of the Natural Sciences and Science Education department and also the Co-Head of the Multi-centric Education, Research and Industry STEM Centre at NIE (meriSTEM@NIE). Her research focuses on equity and sociocultural issues in integrated STEM education.

Reviews for The Structures of STEM Education: A Macro, Meso and Micro Analysis of Learning Outcomes

""I strongly recommend this volume to researchers, teachers, and teacher educators in STEM education worldwide. This book invites readers to reflect on themselves and their practices as agents operating within the fluid, dynamic, and context-dependent STEM education ecosystem. May it inspire you to reflect, engage, and act with renewed purpose and imagination."" Dr Jina Chang, Assistant Professor, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore ""This book provides rich insights into how STEM education practices with different purposes are connected at the three levels, namely narratives at macro-levels, interpretations at meso-levels, and practices or processes at micro-levels. The author provides compelling reasons to consider macro-, meso-, and micro-Structures in the design of systemic STEM programmes."" Dr Aik-Ling Tan, Associate Professor, National Institute of Education. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore