[ecrea] Environment and Health in Science Education

Zurich, 18 - 21 August 2010
 
Environment and Health in Science Education, 
 
Environment and health have always been important learning areas in
science education and are gradually becoming more important. Not only are
they socially highly relevant regarding sustainable development
discourses, but also and particularly they are close to students’
interests and needs and can help to open up science to individually
relevant questions, especially also for girls.
When it comes to these issues, it is not so much the question of
measuring immediate effects of elaborated teaching procedures, but much
more the interest to understand how learners interact with complex
issues, what concept images of the environment and health they have, how
they deal with controversial perspectives in these fields.
The conference will offer keynote lectures by researchers who are
prominent in the field, as well as a broad variety of workshops, where
both advanced and young researchers present their research studies for
in-depth discussions.
 
http://www.igb.uzh.ch

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
Pleinlaan 2 - B-1050 Brussels - Belgium
T: ++ 32 (0)2-629.18.56
F: ++ 32 (0)2-629.36.84
Office: 5B.401a
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European Communication Research and Education Association
Web: http://www.ecrea.eu
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E-mail: (Nico.Carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
Web: http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~ncarpent/
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