Through the lenses of cultural-historical theory, this book helps readers find out how early childhood science education became established as a field of inquiry.

This book consists of a selection of papers that discuss the challenges in the increasingly complex world of education and various educational problems such as moral degradation, lack of literacy, pedagogical curriculum and innovation, educational technology. Moreover, the book provides papers that deal with educational innovation in the era of Society 5.0, with a view to discuss and resolve various social challenges, issues, and problems relating to educators, students, the dynamics of the education system, and social dynamics. The subject areas treated in this book are: Character Education in Society 5.0 Era, Multiliteracy Education in Society 5.0 Era, Early Childhood Education in Society 5.0 Era, Inclusive Education in Society 5.0 Era, Curriculum, Media and Educational Technology for Primary Education in Society 5.0 Era, Joyful and Meaningful Learning in Society 5.0 Era, and HOTS in Society 5.0 Era. This book will help educators, stakeholders, and also parents to cope with the challenges in education.

This book is a contribution to the sociocultural approaches to Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education. It offers a new interpreting theoretical framework coming from the Cultural Historical Psychology. The authors highlight some serious elements of the sociocultural context that mediates learning on STEM or with STEM adds. The book brings together the work of researchers interested in developmental psychology and childhood, with a special focus on using Activity theory and Cultural-historical research approach to unite these two opposing approaches to the study of children. The authors reconsider our relationship and experiencing with technology. It moves the attention from the pure instrumental aspect of technology to a deep human and societal approach. Moreover, the book focuses on the issue of teachers' continuing education in both formal and informal settings is being seen under a sequential system of expansive cycles and the key role of contradictions in transformative educational settings. Overall, this book encourages the academic society to open dialogue with other societies and enhance interdisciplinary research in times of crisis.

This book brings together a collection of work from around the world in order to consider effective STEM, robotics, mobile apps education from a range of perspectives. It presents valuable perspectives—both practical and theoretical—that enrich the current STEM, robotics, mobile apps education agenda. As such, the book makes a substantial contribution to the literature and outlines the key challenges in research, policy, and practice for STEM education, from early childhood through to the first school age education. The audience for the book includes college students, teachers of young children, college and university faculty, and professionals from fields other than education who are unified by their commitment to the care and education of young children.

This is an open access book. This conference proceeding constitutes a selection of the best papers from the International Conference on Education 2022, ICE 2022, held in Malang, Indonesia, in October 2022. This conference proceeding is a collection of research findings and viewpoints relating to education and any subject associated to the present trend of education. This trend is lead by the set of improvements and changes in the instructional, societal, and technological structures and processes towards the endeavor of accomplishing the goals. The conference proceeding also extends to compile the papers discussing the issues in relation to emerging technologies for educational context such as ethical issues, security and privacy, quality control, accreditation and sustainability issues, and cultural issues.

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