Idea

Idea and plan

 2019-1-FI01-KA201-060724

31.12.2019 - 30.10.2021 - prolonged to 31.05.2022

Building capacity in and creating guidance for secondary schools to involve the young students’ families in open science schooling activities in a responsible science perspective

Key players such as the European Commission, the OECD and leading research communities jointly agree that one of the biggest challenges to 21st century education is to engage and re-engage young student along their teenage years in science learning, a life in science – and in responsible science. They encourage and recommend to experiment with open science schooling to enable schools to contribute in new ways to such engagement and re-engagement.

They also recommend creating such open science schooling in a responsible science perspective, developing critical mindsets among the young students towards science and science in society.

One powerful way to practice open science schooling and to engage young students in science in society is to include families and community, engaging students and their families in real-.life science in the local and virtual communities.

Families are encouraged to become real partners in school life and activities, says the European Commission. Such initiatives must come from the schools. They must be the dynamic centers of involving families and community in open science schooling experimentation. Therefore a major challenge is to build capacity in secondary schools to be the initiative-takers and drivers of such family and community based open science schooling. Such experimentation has never been undertaken at systematic level in Europe, which is why very little useful guidance is available to schools and science teachers.

FAMILY BASED OPEN SCIENCE SCHOOLING is one of the first systematic attempts to experiment with such challenges. The project’s most important mission is to develop practically useful guidance to secondary schools and science teachers on how to organise and facilitate facility based open science schooling with good  quality – based rich practical experimentation along the project and on the co-creation of young students and their families.

All project elements are directed towards producing such practically useful and attractive guidance to secondary schools and science teachers.

SHORT PLAN

RESULTS

The project will produce product as well as process outcomes. Process outcomes will results from the various project phases, whereas product outcomes will be based on the full project experience.

Intellectual Outputs will be:

1. THE SCHOOL GUIDE TO FAMILY BASED OPEN SCIENCE SCHOOLING

2. FAMILIES IN SCIENCE LEARNING – THE VIDEO

3. STUDY: WHY FAMILY BASED OPEN SCIENCE SCHOOLING HELPS (RE)ENGAGE

YOUNG STUDENTS IN SCIENCE

4. POLICY PAPER: CHALLENGES TO OPEN SCIENCE SCHOOLING INNOVATION

AND RE-THINKING SCIENCE EDUCATION