The proposed Marcelo N. Mapa and Francisca Valeza Study Center for Science and Technology, Early Childhood Education and Children with disabilities has the following areacof research:

 

(1) Science education is the teaching and learning of science to non-scientists, such as school children, college students, or adults within the general public. The field of science education includes work in science content, science process (the scientific method), some social science, and some teaching pedagogy.

 

(2) Technology education is the study of technology, in which students "learn about the processes and knowledge related to technology". As a field of study, it covers the human ability to shape and change the physical world to meet needs, by manipulating materials and tools with techniques.

 

(3) Theories of child development. The Developmental Interaction Approach is based on the theories of Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson, John Dewey, and Lucy Sprague Mitchell. The approach focuses on learning through discovery.[32]Jean Jacques Rousseau recommended that teachers should exploit individual children's interests in order to make sure each child obtains the information most essential to his personal and individual development.

 

(4) Children with Disabilities.

Children with disabilities are reported to have high levels of social–emotional problems, and one of the most prominent characteristics of children with ASD, Fragile X syndrome, and other disabilities is problems in social–emotional functioning.

The proposed Marcelo N. Mapa and Francisca Valeza Study Center for Science and Technology, Early Childhood Education and Children with disabilities has the following areacof research:

 

(1) Science education is the teaching and learning of science to non-scientists, such as school children, college students, or adults within the general public. The field of science education includes work in science content, science process (the scientific method), some social science, and some teaching pedagogy.

 

(2) Technology education is the study of technology, in which students "learn about the processes and knowledge related to technology". As a field of study, it covers the human ability to shape and change the physical world to meet needs, by manipulating materials and tools with techniques.

 

(3) Theories of child development. The Developmental Interaction Approach is based on the theories of Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson, John Dewey, and Lucy Sprague Mitchell. The approach focuses on learning through discovery.[32]Jean Jacques Rousseau recommended that teachers should exploit individual children's interests in order to make sure each child obtains the information most essential to his personal and individual development.

 

(4) Children with Disabilities.

Children with disabilities are reported to have high levels of social–emotional problems, and one of the most prominent characteristics of children with ASD, Fragile X syndrome, and other disabilities is problems in social–emotional functioning.