E-textiles, STEAM education and school libraries: Perceptions of primary school teachers
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https://doi.org/10.12795/revistafuentes.2025.27721Keywords:
Primary education, School library, Education programs, Educational innovation, Skills development, Equal opportunities, Primary school teacher, Educational technologyAbstract
E-textiles are presented as an innovative educational resource that provides teachers with various opportunities to enrich the teaching and learning processes for a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) education. This work seeks to explore the perceptions of Galician teachers immersed in the Creative Library program whose objective is to advance the innovative school library model around e-textiles as an educational resource for primary education, as well as its role in benefiting equity in the STEAM approach. An interpretive research with a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach is proposed that collects the voices of teachers through an ad hoc questionnaire and interviews. The results reveal that teachers consider e-textiles an ideal educational resource to promote equality, inclusion and interest in STEAM disciplines. Furthermore, the Creative Library programme was the framework that introduced them to this educational resource, which they highlight as being of great importance for developing 21st century skills, using them in interdisciplinary proposals to introduce students to electrical circuits and programming from a creative perspective. The main barriers are the insufficient training in the field of e-textiles and the limitations of the rigid school grammar.
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