Description du projet
Donner du sens à l’enseignement des sciences
La création d’expériences d’enseignement des sciences significatives transcende les murs de la salle de classe et de l’école. Le projet COSMOS, financé par l’UE, créera de nouveaux partenariats au sein des communautés qui peuvent favoriser l’enseignement des sciences pour tous les citoyens. L’objectif est d’encourager un mode d’engagement «extérieur» entre les écoles et les communautés. Plus précisément, le projet soutiendra la création de communautés de pratique (CP) composées de prestataires d’éducation non formelle et informelle, d’entreprises, de familles et d’autres parties prenantes. COSMOS introduira également de nouvelles structures organisationnelles ou renforcera les structures existantes au sein des écoles, garantissant l’engagement de tous les acteurs de la société et renforçant l’intérêt des étudiants pour les sciences et les carrières scientifiques. Le projet travaillera en étroite collaboration avec des professeurs de sciences, offrant des opportunités de développement professionnel et de renforcement des capacités.
Objectif
COSMOS (Creating Organisational Structures for Meaningful science education through Open Schooling for all) uses socio-scientific inquiry-based learning (SSIBL) as a pedagogical means for opening up schools to their communities through a transformation process, aiming to create new partnerships within communities that can foster science education for all citizens, irrespective of gender, ethnicity or cultural background. To transform and open schools from an 'inwards' to an 'outwards' mode of engagement in, with and for their communities, our open schooling approach is unique in combining key pivotal elements of innovative constructivist pedagogy, teacher education, and transforming school organisational culture.
We will (a) establish Core ORganisational structures for Promoting Open Schooling (CORPOS) in primary and secondary schools to facilitate community engagement. CORPOS will (b) support the creation of Communities of Practice (CoP), which include non-formal and informal education providers, enterprises, families, other stakeholders. The CoP will engage in SSIBL focusing on relevant socio-scientific issues, ensure engagement of all societal actors, and create significant life experiences, enhancing students' interest in science and science careers. We will (c) ensure the viability and sustainability of open schools by working closely with science teachers, stakeholders and school leadership, offering teacher professional development, supporting networking and collaboration and capacity building.
The COSMOS consortium (12 partners, 7 countries) provides transdisciplinary cooperation and expertise in non-formal and formal science education, science teacher education, educational organisation and leadership, and strong societal links within communities, all of which warrant the successful implementation of COSMOS. The resulting tools, policy briefs and roadmaps will be used by schools across Europe further impacting communities through science education.
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