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Workshop on School Science Education Mar 05, 2016

WORKSHOP ON SCHOOL SCIENCE EDUCATION

Date: March 5 -6, 2016

Venue: Lecture Hall Complex, IISER Pune

Conveners: Aditi Deo, Nishad Matange and Bhas Bapat (IISER Pune)

Resource persons (indicative list):

Kamal Mahendroo (Vidya Bhavan Society, Udaipur)

Sushil Joshi (Freelance; formerly with the Hoshangabad Science Teaching Programme)

K Subramaniam (Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education)

Sadhna Saxena (Delhi University)

Amitabha Mukherjee (Delhi University)

Hridaykant Dewan (Vidya Bhavan Society, Udaipur and Azim Premji Foundation)

The workshop aims to bring together people working in the field of school education to give talks and conduct discussions on science pedagogy in school settings for IISER faculty and students, and local school teachers. The goals of the workshop are to create an interface between research and educational approaches in sciences, to consider pedagogy as a mode to impart scientific perspective as opposed to scientific information, and make the participants aware of the needs and opportunities in school science education. The medium of transaction will be a mix of Hindi and English. The sessions will be dynamic and will evolve through the discussions. An indicative outline is as follows:

Day 1

Session 1, 09:30 to 11:00 hrs: Current Structure of the Education System

Gives an overview of the present structure of curriculum creation, school administration, teacher training, examination, textbook creation etc., and the strengths and weaknesses of the system

Session 2, 11:30 to 13:00 hrs: Curricular Objectives

Presentation of ideal curricular objectives and the means to meet those objectives

Session 3, 14:00 to 15:30 hrs: In view of the ideal curricular objectives presented, participants break out into groups and have discussions among themselves on aspects like Textbooks, Teacher's Role and TeacherStudent interactions, Education in the mother tongue, Type of pedagogy: (e.g.: Inquirybased / Experiential / Information driven), Historical Perspectives, Local Contexts / Environmental and Societal Influences vs Universals, Supplementary (nontextbook) resources, Role of Electronic Media, online courses etc, Teachers' Networking, Pseudoscience

Session 4, 16:00 to 18:00 hrs: Presentation of summaries / issues / conclusions by each discussion group to the entire gathering

Day 2

Session 1, 09:30 to 13:00 hrs: Innovations, ideas and discussions that go beyond current curricula, books and pedagogy.

Presentation of efforts by HSTP, HBCSE, VBS, APF, other organisations and select teachers / other participants (teachers to present their innovative / unusual practices or difficulties)

Session 2, 14:00 to 16:00 hrs: Career opportunities, Call for commitments / contributions to supplement the current schemes, Summary and the road ahead

Those outside IISER Pune interested in knowing more about the workshop may contact Dr. AditiDeo at aditi@iiserpune.ac.in