In this article, we outline the key principles of education for sustainability (EfS) that enable us to question the enthusiastic and uncritical promotion of STEM (science, mathematics, engineering and technology) and its offshoot, STEM education, as key contributors to an environmentally sustainable future. We examine the framing of STEM and STEM education as situated in an unproblematised, neoliberal growthist paradigm, in contrast to the more critical ecological paradigm of EfS. We conclude that STEM, and hence STEM education, need to include critical reflection and futures perspectives if they are to align themselves with a flourishing economic, social and environmental future. We provide examples for the classroom that illustrate our contention.

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STEM教育的兴起是否意味着可持续教育的消亡？

在本文中，我们概述了可持续发展教育 (EfS) 的关键原则，这些原则使我们能够质疑 STEM（科学、数学、工程和技术）及其分支 STEM 教育的热情和不加批判的宣传，将其作为环境的关键贡献者。可持续的未来。我们将 STEM 和 STEM 教育的框架置于一个没有问题的新自由主义增长主义范式中，与更关键的 EfS 生态范式形成对比。我们得出结论，STEM 以及因此的 STEM 教育需要包括批判性反思和未来观点，如果它们要与繁荣的经济、社会和环境未来保持一致。我们提供课堂示例来说明我们的论点。