Bringing back the ‘soul’ to STEM
MANY years ago, Akademik Sains Malaysia organised a timely conference themed “Injecting the soul in R&D” in Kuching. At that time, the idea of STREAM was already floated as an expansion to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), which was coined earlier from SMET. The latt...
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Sun Media Corporation Sdn Bhd
2019
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/72354/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/72354/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/72354/1/72354_Bringing%20back%20the%20%E2%80%98soul%E2%80%99%20.pdf |
| Summary: | MANY years ago, Akademik Sains Malaysia organised a timely conference themed “Injecting the soul in R&D” in Kuching.
At that time, the idea of STREAM was already floated as an expansion to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), which was coined earlier from SMET.
The latter did not pick up allegedly due to some offensive meaning in other cultures. I am appreciative of the cultural sensitivity as a reason for the change but this is exactly the issue I have with STEM at the very fundamental level.
The acronym sounds so cold and clinical that it is almost inhuman. It is devoid of the “soul” that has to be injected again. |
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