STEAM Learning in Europe and Finland with a special regard to the Experience Workshop Math-Art Movement

The integrated approach of Science-, Technology-, Engineering-, Arts- and Mathematics learning–known as STEAM–is becoming increasingly important worldwide. The development of collaborative and inter-, multi-, and transdisciplinary problem-solving capabilities, which enable students to discover unexpected connections between different aspects of various complex phenomena, is not only an effective tool, but one of the most important goals of today’s learning societies. Based on a brief overview of the European "STEAM-scape", concerning the major trends, opportunities and current challenges of inter-, multi-, and transdisciplinary learning, the presentation introduce the multidisciplinary aspects in the Finnish National Core Curriculum, and some of the latest results of the Experience Workshop Math-Art Movement (www.experienceworkshop.org).