Document Type

Editorial

Publication Date

2025

DOI

10.3389/feduc.2025.1631460

Publication Title

Frontiers in Education

Volume

10

Pages

1631460 (1-3)

Abstract

[Introduction] Generating solutions for society's complex problems requires a diverse workforce dedicated to technological and social innovation, and sustained efforts toward invention: the process of creating new, novel, and useful products to overcome challenges that affect quality of life and productivity (Couch et al. 2019). Historically, opportunities for K-12 students to develop inventive acumen have been rare and inequitably distributed, partly because educators were expected to provide such experiences without the support of professional development, curricular materials, and instructional examples. These issues have become the focus of an emergent field called Invention Education (IvE). IvE uses trans-disciplinary, equity-oriented pedagogies to promote students' knowledge and agency in habitual problem finding, solution design, prototyping, fabrication, intellectual property creation, and market sector investigation (InventEd, n.d.) This Research Topic, Invention Education and STEM: Perspectives and Possibilities, presents perspectives on IvE that coalesce around four questions.

Original Publication Citation

Garner, J. K., Gandhi, S. D., & Maltese, A. V. (2025). Invention education and STEM: Perspectives and possibilities. Frontiers in Education, 10, 1-3, Article 1631460. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2025.1631460

ORCID

0000-0001-9105-5194 (Garner)

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