Science in school and the future of scientific culture in Europe, Lisbon, 14 to 15 December 1994

Directorate-General For Research And Innovation

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Research policy and organisation

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• Publié par: DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-RESEARCH-AND-INNOVATION
• Nombre de lectures: 18
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 9 Mo

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Science
in School and
the Future of
Scientific Culture
in Europe
Edited by Joan Solomon
and Jose Mariano Gago
Lisbon 14-15 December 1994 EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Edith CRESSON, Member of the Commission,
responsible for Research, Innovation, Education,
Training and Youth
DGXII
Contact: Annette Paternostre
Address: Rue de la Loi, 200, SDME 2/152, B-1049 Brussels
Fax: [phone] Science in School and the Future of
Scientific Culture in Europe
Lisbon 14-15 December 1994 Science in School
and the Future of Scientific
Culture in Europe
Euroscientia conferences Table of contents
Editor's Note: Joan Solomon 7
Foreword 9
José Mariano Gago
The Contributors 11
PART I3
Joan Solomon, Science Education in Europe: a comparative view 15
PART II 45
Jacqueline Hellemans, Report from Belgium 47
Albert Paulsen, Report from Denmark 89
Kurt Riquarts, Report from Germany 12
Vasilis Kouladis, Report from Greece 183
Giuseppe Marucci, Report from Italy 231
Peter Childs, Report from Ireland 277
Harry Eijkelhof and P. Voogt, Report from the Netherlands 34
Svein Sjøberg, Report from Noi-way 385
Teresa Ambrosio, Report from Portugal ATI
Wieslaw Stawinski, Report from Poland 48
Maria Sáez, Report from Spain 52
Björn Andersson, Report from Sweden 583
Joan Solomon and Sue Hall, Report from the United Kingdom 611
Euroscientia conferences - Information Note 701 Editor's Note
Joan Solomon
These reports were compiled during the years 1993 and 1994. Considerable care
was taken to make them as accurate and up-to-date as possible at the time of
writing. However these are changing times in education and every year sees some
new departure in the science education programme of all countries. For example
the changes brought in, against considerable teacher hostility, in England, have
now been not only accepted by teachers (see page 690) but also changed again by
the new government. In Portugal an important new programme in science
education has been introduced. This is "Ciencia Viva" which aims to increase the
amount of practical work carried out in primary and secondary science classes. In
France the introduction of the project called "La Main à la Pâte", supported by
Georges Charpack, which aims to encourage the teaching of primary science
along with suitable experimental work, is similar.
However the report is still valuable for two very important reasons. In the first
place it was upon this composite report that the White Paper on Science
Education was prepared and written in 1995/6. Secondly, because the report
aimed to include descriptions of the forces for change within science education,
these innovations were all clearly foreshadowed in the report. Indeed the ways in
which science education for the majority of our school students in Europe has
moved forward in the last three years is a proof of the validity of some of our
discussions and predictions.