Goerudio - Promoting science education

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The aim of the project is to create a learning community of European teachers and students in order to carry out a common analysis and reflection on the theme of how to make scientific issues more attractive to students, how to promote and share teaching methods and tools.

The project rationale relies on the shared identification of common challenges that the educational and training systems - within the partners’ countries and Europe in general - are facing and that need a common effort in order to find an answer to:

  • the lack of motivation of secondary and vocational education students in studying scientific related topics, and the related insufficient results that they achieve during their school curricula;
  • the lack of capacity of teachers and trainers in updating their teaching methods in order to promote the interest of their students toward scientific issues;

In this context the European Commission has financed the “Goerudio” project in the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme (KA4 Dissemination and Exploitation of Results, and Exchange of Good Practice).

The current proposal intends to build on the existing experiences, explore the results of other projects addressing the promotion of scientific knowledge and innovative practices and methods aiming at putting the learner at the centre of the educational and training process and to involve teachers and students as the protagonists of an international peer-to-peer learning community to share, disseminate and exploit the best practices available in the field at European level.

This general aim will be achieved through these specific objectives:

  • Promoting mutual comprehension between teachers and students that will share and match their everyday experiences in dealing with the teaching and learning of scientific issues, to understand what are the main obstacles to correct and effective transfer and acquisition of knowledge in scientific matters
  • Enhancing the interest and stimulating the active learning process of pupils of all educational levels, concerning scientific issues, by sharing and exploiting the most effective experiences that promote an inquiry-based, interactive and exciting approach to the understanding of science

The aim is to create a network among teachers and students of different European countries and institutions for the exchange and comparison of experiences and knowledge in order to develop and exploit a new approach to science teaching and learning, to be used to make students acquire the necessary skills to manage their own learning process and thus be prepared to address sciences not as a mere set of information to be memorised to “survive” at school, but as a necessary part of their future personal development.

The Goerudio project can ensure a consistent impact on its direct target groups: students and teachers of secondary and vocational schools.

 

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