Traditional education, especially in STEAM and programming, faces several challenges in capturing the attention and stimulating the new student generation. These challenges are exacerbated by rigid teaching methods and reflect a global difficulty in the educational sector, primarily stemming from the disconnect between traditional teaching and the contemporary needs of the modern world. This article presents a systematic literature review with a mapping study to explore innovative approaches currently employed in teaching, specifically focusing on STEAM and programming education. The conclusions reached make a significant contribution to the field of education, and the mapping conducted has identified the teaching methodologies most researched and investigated by the scientific community. This research also presents a classifying proposal for those methodologies, considering their characteristics and weighing up three dimensions: resources, implementation and receptiveness. As a final reflection, some emerging methodologies were identified that are believed to have great potential to be used for STEAM and programming education.

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