educate on geoscience | explain geoscience | teach geoscience | teaching geoscience

earth science lector | professor of earth science | earth science lecturer | geoscience lector

International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences [ ITC | International Institute for Aerial Survey and Earth Sciences | International Training Centre for Aerial Survey ]

International Institute for Aerial Survey and Earth Sciences

International Council of Scientific Unions - Committee on the Teaching of Science [ ICSU-CTS | Committee on the Teaching of Science ]

science teaching equipment

earth sciences [ Earth(ECLAS) ]

CEES [Abbr.]

provide instruction on veterinary science | teaches veterinary science | explain veterinary science | teach veterinary science

The STEDE (Science Teacher Education Development in Europe) Erasmus Thematic Network seeks to take stock of the most relevant and recent findings in science research and pedagogics in order to translate them into effective teaching and learning. STEDE will also address aspects related to the assessment of teaching and acquisition of scientific literacy. In addition, it will address the specific needs of science teachers, taking account of the specificities of the disciplines and of the cultural differences in the European Union and in the countries associated to the Socrates Programme.

The Commission, in cooperation with the Member States, will support education research and development projects specific to science and technology. The dissemination of results will be promoted by exchanges of experience among teachers, conferences and public debates on the teaching of science and technology. Useful information will be made available on Internet sites.

The 2007 Commission report Science education now: a renewed pedagogy for the future of Europe recommended greater use of inquiry-based science education, breaking the isolation of science teachers through networks, paying special attention to girls’ attitudes to maths, science and technology, and opening up schools towards the wider community.

17. Calls on the Commission to investigate how the teaching of sciences in the EU can be improved at all levels; deplores the lack of human resources in RD in many Member States, which may be attributed to a declining interest among the younger generation in following scientific curricula and engaging in scientific careers; proposes, therefore, the launching of initiatives which familiarise schoolchildren with laboratory and field research; proposes, in addition, the promotion of active and investigatory methods of teaching, using ...[+++]observation and experimentation, the creation of professor-researcher exchange programmes and the support of innovative training methods by local and regional authorities; considers that rapid developments in science risk creating a gulf between ordinary citizens and scientific and technological research; considers that there is a need to promote and support dialogue between scientists and society at large and that, accordingly, scientists should make the results of their research comprehensible to all and available to all;