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Welcome to The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal, a transdisciplinary, global, theory-practice, open access, online journal that invites artists, researchers, students and young voices, educators, and field practitioners who integrate the arts in their work.

We expand STEAM (Arts in STEM) to include arts integration in social sciences, humanities, and community-engaged work. The arts - in all its forms and modalities - bring transdisciplinary boundary crossing processes and mindsets for research, education, and practice. Through the arts, we engage in sense-making, discovery, learning, contemplation, and transformative work for positive social impact and flourishing. The arts are a refractive prism to understand self and society, as social critique and illumination, for exploring and developing knowledge, in meaningful deep learning and teaching, and critical in transforming individuals and community toward flourishing.

We welcome artwork, arts-based social advocacy and activism, arts-based research in Social Sciences, Humanities, and STEM, blog post reflections and op-ed articles, reviews of books about STEAM and arts integration, and arts-integration lesson plans.

Current Issue: Volume 5, Issue 1 (2023)

Cover

Editorials

Articles

Artwork

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Gömböc the Great
Indigo M. Strickert and Lori E. Bradford

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Dear Duck-Billed Platypus
Michael J. Leach Dr

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Life’s a Pattern
Adam Manning

Field Articles

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The Patterns of Yarning
Adam Manning and Sara Motta

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STEAM and Environmental Justice in an Interdisciplinary Context
Paula Farca, Alina Handorean, and Jürgen Brune

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Constructing Kites to Integrate Mathematics and Arts Concepts
David Glassmeyer, Kevin Hsieh, and Lieu Nguyen

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Exhibiting STEAM: Curating Community Conversations through Library Collections
Stefanie Hilles, Ginny Boehme, and Rachel Makarowski

Reflection

Acrylic on Canvas painting showing abstract hand holding a cell phone that is ablaze in the foreground against a bright pop colored background

Issue Art:

Daze Ablaze by Julie Orr