Descrizione del progetto
Aiutare i ricercatori e gli educatori nell’istruzione scientifica e tecnologica
Come rendere attraenti le carriere nell’insegnamento delle scienze? Il progetto SciCar, finanziato dall’UE, intende concentrarsi sulle competenze di ricercatori ed educatori coinvolti nell’istruzione scientifica e tecnologica. Il progetto porterà competenze da paesi all’avanguardia nel campo dell’istruzione scientifica, come Israele e Finlandia, per migliorare e promuovere la consapevolezza su questa professione. Sulla base di questa ispirazione, SciCar istituirà un centro di eccellenza presso Tartu Ulikool (UT) in Estonia che sarà in contatto con tutti gli organismi di istruzione degli insegnanti di scienza, tecnologia, ingegneria e matematica (STEM) e con la comunità dell’istruzione scientifica. Si prevede che il progetto aumenterà il numero di insegnanti STEM.
Obiettivo
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.
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
- H2020-EU.4.b. - Twinning of research institutions Main Programme
Argomento(i)
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Vedi altri progetti per questo bandoBando secondario
H2020-WIDESPREAD-2020-5
Meccanismo di finanziamento
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinatore
51005 Tartu
Estonia