Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed)
Dr. Ruth Freeman:
No, I do not think they are fully included in maths, although numeracy is obviously a key part of all of those subjects. Coming back to what Mr. Reynolds said, for us it is not about necessarily labelling and the technical terms for the subjects in primary education. It is about harnessing the innate curiosity and problem-solving skills and that framework for inquiry-based learning, which we are very happy to see expanding in the new primary curriculum and, hopefully, in secondary reform more fully in due course. Therefore, we do see that. We see things like construction projects and engineering in there. We see computer science projects such as Raspberry Pi and CoderDojo. Those things are out there, although perhaps they are not labelled as such. We must, however, continue to emphasise all four elements.
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