STEM 2.0 – Transformational Thinking about STEM for Education and Career Practitioners. Jim Brazell, international speaker with two decades of experience leading innovative design projects in education, technology and business innovation, published this in July, 2013. He addressed the STEM shortage and problems in the current definitions of STEM, arguing that labor market requirements are for STEM-based skills across many jobs not typically classified as STEM. The net effect, he argues is transformation of social institutions.
“This paper points to problems in the theoretical underpinnings of dominant US Education and workforce definitions of STEM, while presenting a broader conceptual framework for practitioners to understand STEM in terms of innovation. Today, exigent labor market requirements are for STEM-based skills across many jobs not typically classified as STEM.”
