Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Participants
- Welcome and Opening Address
- Astronomy Education: an International Perspective
- Special Lecture: Sundials in London – Linking architecture and astronomy
- 1 University Education
- 2 Distance Learning and Electronic Media in Teaching Astronomy
- 3 The Student Learning Process
- 4 Planetarium Education and Training
- 5 Public Education in Astronomy
- 6 Teaching Astronomy in the Schools
- Current Trends in European Astronomy Education
- Project ASTRO: a successful model for astronomer/teacher partnerships
- The Training of Teachers
- New Trends in Astronomy Teaching
- Coping with a New Curriculum: the evolving schools program at the Carter Observatory, New Zealand
- US Science Education Reforms: is astronomy being overlooked?
- “Plaza del Cielo” Complex: its state of evolution
- Astronomy as a School Subject
- Teaching Astronomy at Secondary School Level in Europe
- A High School Course for a wide Range of Student Abilities
- Measuring the Eccentricity of the Terrestrial Orbit: an experiment in the classroom
- A Program incorporating Physics, Astronomy and Environment
- Classroom Activity: Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
- Collaboration as a Viable Approach for Making Astrophysics Research accessible to the K-12 Community through the Internet and the World Wide Web
- Astronomy Teaching in the Astronautics Club
- The TRUMP Astrophysics Project: Resources for Physics Teaching
- The Life in the Universe Series
- The Astronomy Village: investigating the Universe
- Posters
- Final Address
- Authors
New Trends in Astronomy Teaching
from 6 - Teaching Astronomy in the Schools
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Participants
- Welcome and Opening Address
- Astronomy Education: an International Perspective
- Special Lecture: Sundials in London – Linking architecture and astronomy
- 1 University Education
- 2 Distance Learning and Electronic Media in Teaching Astronomy
- 3 The Student Learning Process
- 4 Planetarium Education and Training
- 5 Public Education in Astronomy
- 6 Teaching Astronomy in the Schools
- Current Trends in European Astronomy Education
- Project ASTRO: a successful model for astronomer/teacher partnerships
- The Training of Teachers
- New Trends in Astronomy Teaching
- Coping with a New Curriculum: the evolving schools program at the Carter Observatory, New Zealand
- US Science Education Reforms: is astronomy being overlooked?
- “Plaza del Cielo” Complex: its state of evolution
- Astronomy as a School Subject
- Teaching Astronomy at Secondary School Level in Europe
- A High School Course for a wide Range of Student Abilities
- Measuring the Eccentricity of the Terrestrial Orbit: an experiment in the classroom
- A Program incorporating Physics, Astronomy and Environment
- Classroom Activity: Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
- Collaboration as a Viable Approach for Making Astrophysics Research accessible to the K-12 Community through the Internet and the World Wide Web
- Astronomy Teaching in the Astronautics Club
- The TRUMP Astrophysics Project: Resources for Physics Teaching
- The Life in the Universe Series
- The Astronomy Village: investigating the Universe
- Posters
- Final Address
- Authors
Summary
We are all aware of the fact that Astronomy teaching is not an easy task for many different reasons which we are going to examine during this Colloquium. The present contribution focuses on one of these reasons we consider of major importance for Astronomy in the school: Teacher Training.
Teacher training has been debated extensively for a long time and discussion is being presently livened up.
Institutions and associations are promoting research, studies and comparisons on this issue. For instance, the Osnabriick conference “Teacher Education in Europe: Evaluation and Perspectives” (June 1995) – the International Forum of Rome (September 1995) and, specially devoted to Astronomy, the EU/ESO Workshop “Astronomy teaching in the European secondary school” (Garching, 1994), SAIt Workshop in Reggio Calabria “European Science Teacher Training” (September 1995), Conferences of Teaching Astronomy in Spain, the Constitutional Conference of the European Association for Astronomy Education (EAAE, Athens, 1995).
It is difficult to treat Astronomy teacher training without including it in a more general context. Teacher training does not only mean providing teachers with suitable teaching skills for each subject. First of all, teachers should bear in mind the interaction with a social and cultural reality that may affect learning processes. And the educational (and teaching) system is not neutral to the external framework. European and non-European countries have their own national differences with different school systems and choices made in the field of teacher training. Time does not allow us to go in detail into a comparison of the various solutions adopted in different countries.
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- New Trends in Astronomy Teaching , pp. 261 - 266Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998