Contributions of the Pedagogical Action of Ethnomodelling to STEM Education

An ethnomodelling-based pedagogical actionPedagogical actions helps students to demonstrate the development of their mathematical processesMathematical processes as they reason, solve problems, communicate ideas, and choose appropriate representations through the development of daily local mathematical practices. It also recognizes that STEM educationSTEM education involves a teaching and learning process based on four specific disciplines: science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. This involves an innovative interdisciplinary approach that uses mathematical tools for the development of local, global, and dialogic pedagogical actionsPedagogical actions. An ethnomodellingEthnomodelling perspective involves pedagogical actionsPedagogical actions that connect with STEM educationSTEM education, where students develop diverse ways of thinking, reasoningReasoning, inferring, modellingModelling, and developing mathematical knowledge in sociocultural contextsContexts. This kind of pedagogical actionPedagogical actions proposes a transformative pedagogy aimed at developing students into critical and reflective citizens. At the same time, it enables them to develop a glocalized perspective, which incorporates knowledge systems from local cultural practices and links them to knowledge systems from multiple worldviews. Teachers need to be supported in designing and implementing ethnomodellingEthnomodelling pedagogical actionsPedagogical actions for STEM educationSTEM education to prepare students to tackle problems and situations they face in their daily lives.