Conveners
Informal and Non-Formal Learning
- Moritz Kriegel (Technical University of Darmstadt)
Description
Informal Learning and Non-Formal Learning of Physics
From science centers and outreach to learning from everyday experience.
If you were on a sailing boat, far from the coast, could you tell your position on Earth using just a clock and the Sun? This is the challenge for hundreds of students at our interactive astronomy workshop in the context of the “Genova Science Festival” (Italy, 2021). Visitors played on a web application that we developed from scratch, with the help of trained scientific animators. However,...
In this contribution the research of astronomical courses in the Czech Republic is presented. It has been focused on the activities organized by the observatories and lecturers of the courses. Inspired by these we developed other activities and manuals that can be used by teachers or other people interested in astronomy.
There are stereotypical beliefs about the work of scientists among students. These can lead to a lack of interest and ill-considered occupational choices. We aim at developing a model to represent a comprehensive overview of the work of physicists, based on the RIASEC+N-model of vocational interest types [1]. We focus on the work of researchers in a Collaborative Research Centre in the field...
Fostering the public understanding of science and technology is widely recognized as a crucial issue in order to develop appropriate skills for 21st century citizenship. The development of policies aimed to this needs a clear picture of how the public feels about science and technology and the people making them (i.e., scientists and engineers). The perception acquired during childhood,...
