The Culturo-Techno-Contextual Principles to STEAM Education for SDG-4 Attainments

STEAM education is best taught using Culturo-Techno-Contextual Approach (CTCA). Teaching and learning STEAM with the old and archaic paradigm that is traditional, transmission, conventional, non-heuristic and didactic instructional approach is bound to mar the students’ learning outcomes, predispose them to low 21st century skills acquisition and low level of employability and entrepreneurship. The CTCA is premised on ethnophilosophy, technophilosophy and contextuality philosophy that engage students with STEAM education via the holistic approach to the construct. CTCA principles of cultural, technological, and contextual integration in STEAM education raises students’ ability, values, capability, creativity, critical thinking skills, digital literacy skill and many other skills expedient for the attainment of SDG-4. With copious theoretical and empirical bases, the article thus suggests lecturers accept and adopt CTCA in the Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standard (CCMAS) of Nigerian Universities; the university management should organize workshops, seminars, and symposia for the effective and efficient adoption of CTCA in STEAM education which invariably will heighten the SDG-4 attainment.