Computer Science – Learning
Scientific paper
Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aipc.1203.1275l&link_type=abstract
ORGANIZED BY THE HELLENIC PHYSICAL SOCIETY WITH THE COOPERATION OF THE PHYSICS DEPARTMENTS OF GREEK UNIVERSITIES: 7th Internatio
Computer Science
Learning
Research Initiatives, Learning Systems, History, Research In Physics Education, Learning Theory And Science Teaching, History Of Science
Scientific paper
The Hellenic Physical Society is a scientific association with an intensive action in the field of education, which is governed by the philosophy that the relationship between science and society must be interactive. For this reason the Hellenic Physical Society is a partner of the European Grundtvig Lifelong Learning Project/Learning Partnerships, tilted: Exploring ``Science as Culture'' through the European Science Museums. The program numbered 07-GRCO1-GR04-00025-1 constitutes an educational collaboration between the Semmelweis Museum Library and archives of the History of Medicine of Hungary, which is the co-ordinator of the project, the Hellenic Physical Society (Greece) and the Aberdeen City Council Strategic Leadership of United Kingdom. During the first year that the european project was conducted, the Physics Museum of the greek aegean island of Chios, in collaboration with the Second Chance School of Chios, also took part. During the academic year 2008-2009, the Second Chance School of the Koridallos Prison of Athens is also taking part. The basic ideas, the design axes and the first results of the Grundtvig project will be developed in this presentation. This european partnership creates an educational programme consisting of science-related activities (such as seminars, lectures, presentations and in situ experimental activities), and prepares appropriate educational material for lifelong science learning, using innovative teaching methodologies and the European science museums' exhibits participating in this project, by making them centres of significant cultural contribution to science and society. Using the integrated approach of astronomy teaching as the central design axe in this programme, we highlight the cultural aspects of science education. From our educational intervention we develop educational tools for astronomy suitable for distance learning and making use of new technologies. The partnership is addressed to different age groups: museum visitors, museum educators, teachers involved in adult education, adult school students, financially and socially inferior groups, the general public. It aims at promoting innovative didactic lifelong procedures of informal forms of science education, through the proper utilization of the artifacts on display of the european science museums taking part, to the utilization of teaching procedures with the use of new technologies as didactic tools, to the forming of a cultural network of collaboration and to the creation of life-long learning teaching tools, so as to furhter promote the cultural dimension of scientific knowledge. In this paper a particular reference will be done to the development of a museum educational project of astronomy at the Adults Prisoners of the Second Chance School of Koridallos Prison of Athens and to the way that we try to insert elements of museum education inside the prison's school. Our main objective is to vivify the science museums. At the same time, we intend to share our experiences and relate our various fields of educational activity, so as to participating in this project. Finally, we intend to cultivate the cultural ideals and perceptions of European citizens, through the exploration of our common cultural past, to raise the awareness in our scientific-cultural heritage and to use this heritage as a powerful unifying field for us all.
Croly Christopher
Czár Katalin
Lelingou Dimitra
Lindsay Lilian
Paterson Allan
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