Project description
Facilitating adoption of open schooling for science education
Open schooling activities for science education are available for limited groups, mainly in the form of extracurricular activities or reserved for the most talented students. However, it is important to ensure all young people become more scientifically literate. Inclusion in education, allowing students to benefit from learning experiences that meet their needs, is especially necessary today for secondary schools to prepare students for future careers. For this reason, the EU-funded CONNECT project’s goal is to create an inclusive, sustainable model that will facilitate the adoption of open schooling by a large number of secondary schools through implementing science-action gamification projects in the core curriculum. Moreover, it will use participatory science approaches with the involvement of students’ families as well as universities and enterprises.
Objective
Science education needs to make students more scientifically literate and encourage larger numbers to take up science careers. Open schooling approaches can make science more authentic but tend to be adopted only as extra-curricular activities, in a minority of schools or are limited to gifted and talented students. CONNECT is an inclusive, sustainable model for enabling more secondary schools to adopt open schooling by embedding science-action projects in the core curriculum, using participatory science approaches with universities and enterprises. A science-action makes science more relevant to studentsOur age is profoundly shaped by science and technology innovations. Societies must become more scientifically literate to be able to make evidence-based decisions and sustain themselves in our highly competitive world. One solution that has been proposed for increasing students' aspirations in science is to open up school through partnerships and family involvement.To make open schooling inclusive and widespread in science education, we believe 3 questions need to be addressed:
Q1. How can open schooling increase the value and priority of partnership activities and reduce the barriers to entry so more schools are willing and able to adopt them ?
Q2. How can open schooling facilitate the interaction between all partners (science professionals, teachers, students and their families) to result in effective learning experiences linked to R&I?
Q3. How can open schooling make science careers more inclusive by giving disadvantaged students more experience and insight into professional STEM jobs, supported by professionals and their families?
CONNECT is an inclusive, sustainable model for enabling more secondary schools to adopt open schooling by embedding science-action gamification projects in the core curriculum, using fun approaches of participatory science with families, universities and enterprises to increase students’ interest and confidence with science in life.
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.
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H2020-EU.5.d. - Encourage citizens to engage in science through formal and informal science education, and promote the diffusion of science-based activities, namely in science centres and through other appropriate channels
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(opens in new window) H2020-SwafS-2018-2020
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