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Laura Dumbraveanu

To design teaching materials starting from the subject matter in Science field, from the contents of textbooks or by studying the syllabuses are regular practices within schools. The SEDEC project proposes concrete and innovative modalities of conceiving teaching materials starting from teachers perception of science and by talking with them about their ideas and needs regarding teaching Science. A deep discussion of the relationships between science education and European citizenship has been another important ingredient of this new process of didactic design.

http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/06/03/Jcom0603%282007%29C07/

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Debating as an educational method to science and citizenship

Sara Calcagnini

Se la scienza oggi ha tra i suoi obiettivi di rispondere alle reali esigenze della società deve trovare un nuovo modo di parlare ai cittadini e di accogliere le loro istanze e conoscenze. Molti musei della scienza in Europa stanno adottando nuove modalità di coivolgimento attivo del pubblico nella discussione di temi scientifici di attualità. In questo contesto il Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci" di Milano (partner del progetto SEDEC) ha sperimentato alcuni formati per dialogare con insegnanti e con cittadini. La nostra esperienza mostra come il museo possa essere un luogo dove la scienza e la cittadinanza si coniugano con la democrazia.

http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/06/03/Jcom0603%282007%29C08/

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School staff training: the opportunities offered by National Agencies in European countries

Chris Souvlis

In 2007 the Life Long Learning Programme (previously Socrates) of the European Commission has started. The programme offers to teachers, educators and policy-makers of the education sector the opportunity to be funded for participating at various training courses organized in all EU countries by international networks and projects. The SEDEC course will be included in that list in 2008. The article shortly present how to ask for a grant.

http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/06/03/Jcom0603%282007%29C09/

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REVIEW

Science and society of knowledge

Pietro Greco

Probably among the first to deal with it, nearly sixty years ago, Norbert Wiener, the founding father of cybernetics (The human use of human beings. Cybernetics and Society, Houghton Mifflin Company, London, 1950), prefigured its opportunities, as well as its limitations. Today, it is a quite common belief. We have entered (are entering) a new, great era in the history of human society: the age of information and knowledge. 

http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/06/03/Jcom0603%282007%29R01/