PATWHAY (The Pathway to Inquiry Based Science Teaching) aims to set the pathway toward a standard-based approach to teaching science by inquiry. The project has three main goals. First, to support the adoption of inquiry teaching. The project plans to achieve that by demonstrating ways to reduce the constraints presented by teachers and school organisations. Second, to demonstrate and disseminate methods and exemplary cases of both effective introduction of inquiry to science classrooms and professional development programmes. Finally, PATHWAY aims to deliver a set of guidelines for the educational community to further explore and exploit the unique benefits of the proposed approach in science teaching. In this way the project team aims to facilitate the development of communities of practitioners of inquiry that will enable teachers to learn from each other.
The Pathway Consortium team will collaborate closely with teachers to develop a support service network designed to help teachers implement the necessary changes, to develop the diagnostics and intervention skills necessary to plan and diffuse innovation in their own contexts.
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FP7, Science in Society, THEME SiS-2010-2.2.1.1 (2011-2013)
PROACTIVE (Fostering Teachers' Creativity through Game-Based Learning) aims at fostering creativity and supporting flexibility of trainers working in Lifelong Learning (LLL) sub-programmes. We will create learning contexts where teachers of Comenius, Erasmus and Leonardo can apply creativity in designing their own game-based learning scenarios by using digital tools. Within training workshops, teachers in 18 pilot sites in four countries will use two game editors (EUTOPIA and e-adventure) in designing their learning sessions. PROACTIVE promotes a new approach to learning, by proposing a conceptual framework for integrating different learning metaphors through the implementation of new ICT-based tools (2D and 3D virtual environments) and an innovative methodology (game-based learning). The project will validate the proposed approach as a means of learning and evaluate its impact on teachers’ creativity and students’ outcomes.
Lifelong Learning Programme, Key Action 3 (2010-2011)
Code: 505469-LLP-1-2009-1-ES-KA3-KA3MP
Coordination: Universitat de Barcelona - Mario Barajas
Official website: http://www.proactive-project.eu
Science Center to Go project aims to bring comprehensive learning experiences out of the Science Centers into a school’s classroom and everyone’s home. SCeTGo goals include crosscutting the boundaries between formal (schools, universities) and informal (SCs) learning settings and stimulating motivation of students of both genders and encourage students to consider science and science-dependent vocations as careers.
Lifelong Learning Programme, Key Action 3 (2010-2011)
Code: 505318-LLP-1-2009-1-FI-KA3-kA3MP
Coordination: Heureka Science Centre (Finland) - Spanish coordinator: Mario Barajas
SESTEM (Supporting Equality in Science Technology and Mathematics related choices of careers) is built on the premise that the study of the uptake of Science, Technology and Mathematics (STEM) studies by girls and their retention in the field can benefit from investigation into the triangulation of family-individual and school (secondary and tertiary) factors. Under this scope SESTEM aims to conduct four interrelated comparative studies engaging students, pupils, parents and teachers (both secondary and tertiary levels). Both qualitative (in depth interviews, conceptual mapping, tandem based dialoguing and review into existing literature) and quantitative (collection and analyses of data from across the Member States using on-line survey methods, and meta-analyses of existing statistical data) methods will be applied.
Lifelong Learning Programme, Key Action 1: Studies and Comparative Research ()
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Coordination: Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (Greece) - Spanish coordinator: Mario Barajas
