Description du projet
Aider les chercheurs et les éducateurs dans l’enseignement des sciences et de la technologie
Comment augmenter l’attrait pour les carrières dans l’enseignement des sciences? Le projet SciCar, financé par l’UE, entend se concentrer sur l’expertise des chercheurs et des éducateurs impliqués dans l’enseignement des sciences et de la technologie. Le projet rassemblera l’expertise des meilleurs pays en matière d’enseignement des sciences, comme Israël et la Finlande, afin d’améliorer et de promouvoir la sensibilisation aux carrières scientifiques. Basé sur cette inspiration, SciCar mettra en place un centre d’excellence au Tartu Ulikool (UT) en Estonie qui sera en contact avec tous les établissements de formation des enseignants en science, technologie, ingénierie et mathématiques (STEM) et la communauté de l’enseignement des sciences. Le projet devrait se traduire par une augmentation du nombre d’enseignants STEM.
Objectif
SciCar - a science education project - addresses the need to systematically raise the level of expertise among researchers and educators who are involved in science & technology (S&T) education within UT and associated institutions, currently seen as ineffective in making science teaching careers attractive and enabling teaching to adopt more relevant, context-based approaches. The project especially addresses, via a Twinning partnership, bringing in expertise from top level science education countries - Israel and Finland, particularly focusing on enhancing career awareness, enabling a capable workforce, and on promoting science-related careers. The major outcome is envisaged as a centre of excellence at UT in science education, interacting with all STEM teacher education bodies and the science education community e.g. science centres, science teacher associations. This is seen as enabling appropriate models for enacting a change of paradigm related to teacher education and science career awareness. A major focus is put on (1) reducing the gap between scientist and science educator beliefs in the training emphasis of future STEM-related teachers, (2) the involvement of the science education community in making the teaching profession more attractive, (3) thus determining key ways & appropriate models for instituting a paradigm change with a view to increasing the number of STEM-related teachers, (4) and giving emphasis to competence development in promoting science-related career awareness. The created centre is to become a platform ensuring that science researchers are guided to embrace science education expertise, making the preparation for science-related teaching careers more attractive while applying excellent knowledge in research (and approaches to undertake research) in coaching the next generations of science education researchers. The project seeks to identify best practice on knowledge transfer between science development and science education.
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Programme(s)
- H2020-EU.4.b. - Twinning of research institutions Main Programme
Thème(s)
Régime de financement
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinateur
51005 Tartu
Estonie