CASE - Creativity, Art and Science in Primary Education

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The CASE project is structured around the understanding that scientific inquiry must be known more as an integral part of daily life and less as a faraway myth in isolated institutions. The partners of the CASE project expect to train fifty primary school teachers for the duration of three years. Each year they organise a summer school for teachers, educators and artists.

The main project objectives of the CASE project are:

  1. To design and develop training materials aimed at training primary school teachers. These include user-friendly manuals, guidelines, learning scenarios, open educational resources and social-media tools, available on the project’s Web platform. For this purpose, the project’s partners build upon the work of state-of-the-art European projects in the field of creative education.
  2. To implement a widespread training approach for teachers that facilitates the uptake of creative practices in Inquiry-Based Science Education at primary schools. The project’s partners carry out numerous international mobility activities, in which primary school teachers gain the necessary know-how to implement activities in schools and further develop their own CASE-inspired initiatives.
  3. To validate and evaluate the project’s approach. Systematic validation and evaluation are implemented to identify the project’s impact in terms of effectiveness and efficiency.
  4. To provide guidelines for continued communication and exploitation of the project’s results by the primary education community. A specific roadmap, including guides for sustainability and further exploitation of the project’s outcomes, is developed and made available to the public.

The main results of the project are thus expected to be the following:

  1. Strengthening the profile of primary school teachers by motivating them to undertake a deeper change in their approaches to science education. This is realised through the strengthening of creativity and incorporation of arts education practices in their methods.
  2. Improving achievements in high-level basic and transversal competences.
  3. Designing, communicating and representing creative Inquiry-Based Science Education approaches for primary schools in science education supported by a) teacher training activities (workshops, mobility activities) and b) the development of relevant training materials.
  4. Supporting the development of an innovative sustainable way of learning, which may be leveraged for the benefit of primary school students.
  5. Establishing a network of CASE’s primary school teacher practitioners.

 

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