Objective
The aim of this project is to improve understanding of how different aspects of citizenship, including affective and social dimensions, are promoted or may possibly be promoted through Biology, Health and Environmental Education. We will develop a critical analysis of syllabi and schoolbooks as well as of teachers' and teachers-to-be' conceptions in order to answer to the following questions: Are there reductive simplifications in teaching issues related to our selected topics on Biology, Health and Environmental Education, like "1 gene -1 character"; "1 microbe - 1 disease" ? Do such teaching issues present or might they present notions of regulation, cycles, complexity? Are there implicit values, ideologies, in the curricula, syllabi and school textbooks? What are the teachers' systems of values, including social and affective dimensions, about nature, body and health, sexuality, biologic determinism, evolution? Are their values interacting with their scientific knowledge? differences among countries? Such differences, can they be associated to controlled parameters (gender, disciplines, religion, etc.)? This work will be largely comparative across the 19 countries involved in the project, using the same concepts and methods coming from science education, epistemology and sociology, through two approaches as much extensive as possible: Critical analysis of the selected topics in syllabi and schoolbooks of primary and secondary school as well as in teachers' training courses. Analysis of teachers' and teachers-to-be' conceptions from questionnaires regarding implicit values related to each topic. Altogether, the results obtained from this project will be published in scientific papers, delivered as appropriate to policy-makers, to national and European teachers' associations and to general public in order to contribute to promote citizenship' scientific literacy and to improve citizenship in scientific knowledge based societies.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- social sciences educational sciences didactics
- natural sciences biological sciences ecology
- social sciences sociology ideologies
- medical and health sciences basic medicine medical genetics
- humanities philosophy, ethics and religion religions
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Keywords
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Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Topic(s)
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Call for proposal
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Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
FP6-2002-CITIZENS-2
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Coordinator
BRAGA
Portugal
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