The Philippine STEAM Education (PSE) Models: Responsive Model and Emerging Model for Philippine STEAM Education

Country-wide initiatives targeting FIRe (Fourth Industrial Revolution era) can be observed in all agencies and sectors of the government. The Department of Science and Technology (in partnerships with many other agencies) programs for accelerated human resource has already reaped a 19 rank improvement (from 73rd to 54th) in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2019. The education sector also exemplify such efforts by proliferating the concept of Education 4.0 as a means towards FIRe. In fact, the Commission on Higher Education puts STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Agri-fisheries, and Mathematics) at the forefront to this effort. Thus, this brief reports a substantive attempt to model the Philippine STEAM education to bridge content, pedagogy and technological gap in attaining the envisioned model for Philippine STEAM towards STEAM 4.0.