Erasmus lecture 2005 from science to education: The need for a revolution

European Review

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-21

  Léna, Pierre ^a,b  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; EDUCATION POLICY; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 30544437598     PISSN: 10627987     EISSN: 14740575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1062798706000020     Document Type: Article

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7. 2, where G is the Newton constant of gravitation.
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12. Les sciences à l'école, quelle histoire! An exhibit realized by the Académie des sciences in France, and its partners, to describe and analyse science education in primary schools since 1830 in France. This exhibition has circulated in teacher's training institutes (IUFM) since 2004, as well as outside France.
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17. Study carried by Marie-Odile Lafosse-Marin, PhD in preparation, Paris (2005).
18. Relevance of Science Education (ROSE), quoted in the Report Europe Needs More Scientists, prepared under the direction of Mariano Gago, European Commission, 2004.
19. PISA has carried evaluations in 2000 and 2003, and a new one is planned for 2006. The first ones dealt only partly with science while focusing on language, then mathematics. The 2006 evaluation will focus on science.
20. Here is a partial list of these Conferences or Workshops: Budapest (1998), Strasbourg (1998), Beijing, (2000), Monterrey (2001, 2003, 2005), Santiago-du-Chili (2003), Vatican (2001, 2005), Kuala Lumpur (2002), Rio (2002), Boston (2002), Mexico (2003), Dakar (2003), Lima (2003), Penang (Malaysia, 2004), Bielefeld (2004), Erice (Sicily, 2004, 2005), Amsterdam (2005), Stockholm (2005), Zlatibor (Serbie, 2005), Corpus Christi (USA, 2005).
21. Let me mention here, among many, the National Academy of sciences (USA), the Académie des sciences (France), the Royal Swedish Academy of sciences (Sweden), the Academia Brasileira de Ciências... as well as the InterAcademy Panel (IAP), the InterAcademy Council (IAC) and the International Council of Science (ICSU).
22. IAP Mexico city 2003
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24. OCDE (2002) Understanding the Brain. Towards a New Learning Science (Paris: OCDE).
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27. The French programme of renovation of the primary school science education, and its achievements, are described in detail in a recent book, soon to be published in English and Spanish: G. Charpak, P. Léna, and Y. Quéré (2005) L'enfant et la Science. L'aventure de La main à la pâte (Paris: Editions Odile Jacob).
28. Again, the term science is used in what follows to designate the sciences of nature (experimentation and observation). It does not mean that experimentation and observation should not be part of a good elementary teaching of mathematics.
29. The site can be found at www.inrp.fr/lamap or at www.lamap.fr
30. The project 'Eratosthenes' is described in H. Farges, E. Di Folco, M. Hartman and D. Jasmin (2003) Mesurer la Terre est un jeu d'enfant (Paris: Le Pommier).
31. This definition of science as 'a province of culture, and one of the most beautiful' is due to Yves Quéré, from the French Académie des sciences, of which he is the former Foreign Secretary. He has developed this in several books: Y. Quéré (2002) La science institutrice (Paris: Odile Jacob);
32. Y. Quéré (2005) La sagesse du physicien, L'œil neuf (Paris: Odile Jacob);
33. Y. Quéré (2006) Qu'est-ce que la culture? (collective) (Paris: Odile Jacob), to be published.