Science education is schools faces severe challenges throughout the world. The consequences of these challenges have implications for future intakes to universities. It will therefore be advocated that universities should take an active role in providing support for science in schools, if only out of self-interest. This talk will address the following questions: why is such support needed? What might the aims of such support be? What forms of support might be provided? What organisational measures can be taken to ensure that this support is effective?
John Gilbert is Professor Emeritus of The University of Reading and Visiting Professor of Science Education at King’s College London, UK. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Science Education since 1991. His own field of research is ‘models and modelling in science education’. He has edited/co-edited a series of books on the theme: Developing Models in Science Education (Kluwer, 2000), Visualization in Science Education (Springer, 2005), Visualization: Theory in Practice in Science Education (Springer, in press). In 2005, on invitation, he edited Constructing Worlds through Science Education: The selected works of John K. Gilbert (Routledge). In 2001 he was given the award for 'Distinguished contributions to science education through research’ by the USA-based National Association for Research in Science Teaching.
This lecture is presented by the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science.
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