Children's Creative Inquiry in STEM

Introduction: Creativity and the creative product.- Part I: Creative Dispositions and Processes  - Defining creativity, synergies between inquiry and creative approaches to STEM learning and teaching.- Chapter 1. Children's Creativity: A systematic Literature Review.- Chapter 2. Teachers' reflections on their changing roles and young childre's learning in creative, inquiry based STEM education.- Chapter 3. Growing children's questioning skills for creative inquiry in STEM.- Chapter 4. Creative learning contexts and fostering children's motivation to learn science.- Chapter 5. Child-focussed science inquiry: Can the right balance be found between curiosity, curriculum objectives and assessment requirements?.- Chapter 6. Working with STEM inquiry: Activities to encourage divergent thinking.- Part II: Characteristics of Creative STEM Learning Environments.- Chapter 7. STEM in Preschool: Working with educators to support child-initiated learning experiences.- Chapter 8. Using preschool children's natural curiosity as a leaver to STEM learning.- Chapter 9. Characteristics of learning environments and teachers' supports for children's creative STEM inquiry in Japan.- Chapter 10. Bush Kinders in Australia: A creative place for outdoor STEM learning.- Part III: Creative Approaches to Teaching STEM.- Chapter 11. Exploring STEM: Engineering design and young children's creativity.- Chapter 12. Dramatising inquiry learning: Reflections on how to use a historical story to actively and imaginatively engage children in resolving a STEM problem.- Chapter 13. Leonardo da Vinci's Apprentices or tinkering belles and boys at play.- Chapter 14. Introducing the nature of science in early childhood science education: A way to inspire children's curiosity, inquiry and play.- Part IV: Digital Creativity in Children's STEM Learning - Looking forward in the digital era.- Chapter 15. Integrating tangible technologies with young children's STREAM projects.- Chapter 16. The creative in

Karen Murcia (PhD) is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. Dr Murcia has an established track record of research related to STEM education that has a particular focus on scientific literacy, digital technologies in education and children's creativity. She has worked extensively in school-based research, with strong industry links and partnerships. She uses action research principles and design experiment methods to support teachers as classroom based researchers. She works primarily with qualitative methods and specialises in video ethnography and multimodal data analysis. Karen is a Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child and an Independent Director on the Board of Scitech Discovery Centre, Perth, Western Australia
Coral Campbell is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at Deakin University. She has contributed significantly to the fields of science, science teaching and science/STEM educational research over three careers. Coral's sustained focus on science/STEM education, teacher professional learning and students' learning in science is reflected in her research around developing greater understandings of how teachers and students learn and ways to enhance this learning. 
Mathilda Joubert is Director of Excellence and Innovation at Sheridan College, Perth where she lectures in both the Education and Business Faculties. She is currently completing her PhD at the University of Western Australia, studying the assessment of children's creative thinking skills. Mathilda is a true cross-disciplinarian with bachelors, honours and/or masters degrees (in music, languages, arts education, cognitive neuropsychology and business) and experience teaching at primary, secondary and tertiary level. She serves on the Western Australian Executive of the Australian Council for Educational Leadership, is an accredited School Improvement Advisor for