STEAM education, which adds an Arts component to STEM education, is strongly recommended in current education policy. However, the definition of STEAM education, specific educational content, and methodology remain vague. This paper introduces some topics in psychology that may be useful for future discussions on STEAM education, especially the discussion on the concept of creativity and examples of arts education based on psychology.

The establishment of cross-disciplinary faculties has been progressing with the aim of adapting to the declining birthrate and aging population, as well as the diversification of society. The Faculty of Engineering and Design at Kagawa University is working to develop the next generation of engineering professionals by incorporating design thinking skills into traditional engineering education in order to respond to the important issues of modern society. This paper introduces the educational content and educational effectiveness of the drawing education provided by the Department of Engineering and Design, Kagawa University’s Faculty of Engineering and Design, in Media and Product Design Course.

In learning a presentation document, learners generally need to select a number of slides from the document, which describe what they want to learn or should learn. However, it is not so easy to find out the slides to be learnt since the connections between the adjacent slides are not explicitly expressed. They accordingly take more time to learn and finish learning with incomplete knowledge. In order to address this issue, this paper introduces a map called slidemap for visualizing the logical connections between slides. This map helps learners identify the sequence of slides to be learnt from a presentation document and comprehend the structure embedded in the document in a shorter time. This paper also reports a case study involving 16 participants with the tool. The results of the study show slidemap could be more beneficial for learning a presentation document than using PowerPoint user interface.

MONSAKUN is a software of learning by problem-posing for arithmetic unit word problems. In this paper, results of an experimental use of MONSAKUN of addition and subtraction in all grades and classes in a public elementary school are reported. The contributions of this report are (1) successful use of MONSAKUN for addition and subtraction in all grades and classes in a public elementary school, and (2) obtaining data suggesting use value in upper grades classes. Although MONSAKUN has been used in a few elementary schools so far, its use was for part of grades or classes in the schools. Because the use of MONSAKUN in all grades and classes in a public elementary school is the first case, this report is novel and useful for developing practice of MONSAKUN. Regarding (2), previous studies have mentioned that the arithmetic unit word problems of addition and subtraction are mastered by the third grade. The result of this use shows that problem posing of the arithmetic unit word problems of addition and subtraction is not easy even 5th or 6th grade students. It suggests that some of the students in 5th or 6th grade don’t have enough “relational understanding” that required in problem-posing in MONSAKUN although they have enough “instructional understanding” that required in problem-solving tests. As the next step of this experimental use, we plan to use MONSAKUN in usual classes in the same school.