More information: NorSEd HPS, October 23-26 2012
Contact: Ismo Koponen

For registration to the course, please use the electronic registration on the web site listed above. For application for covering travel and accommodation expenses, please fill in the NorSEd application form and send to Berit Bungum.  NorSEd application form [doc] 

Deadline for registration and application for financial support: May 31.
(extended from May 15.)

Welcome to Helsinki!

Kurset finder sted 27-30 marts + tre seminardage i april, maj og juni (endnu ikke skemalagte) Institut for Naturfagenes Didaktik, Øster Voldgade 3, 1350 København K.

(See link below for English text)

Kurset er gratis, men deltagerne skal selv sørge for indkvartering og forplejning. Arbejdsmængden er ca. 150 timer, svarende til 5 ECTS.

(NorSEd dekker ikke utgifter til dette kurset)

For mer informasjon, kontakt Marianne Foss Mortensen

Kursusinformation og tilmeldingsformular

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Description

• Science and Sustainability Education, Spring 2012  [pdf]

Program

• Program [pdf]

Registration

• NorSEd course: application for participation - Deadline: 31. January, 2012

Please note
In the registration, please provide a short description of your research, and how it will benefit from participating in the course. The registration includes applying for travel grants (no extra form required for this). It is important that you give a realistic estimate of travel costs, in order for NorSEd to calculate the total costs of the course, and to decide whether we can offer travel grants to all participants.

 

Science and Sustainability Education, spring 2012

NorSEd course for PhD students and researchers in science education

8 credits on PhD level

Reykjavík, Monday 23 April – Friday 27 April 2012

University of Iceland, School of Education and Institute for Sustainability Studies
 

Organizers

• Allyson Macdonald, School of Education, University of Iceland
• Berit Bungum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Enquiries to Caitlin Wilson, University of Iceland: cmw1@hi.is

Course design

In this course doctoral students engage in sustainability issues and new views on learning. Lectures and visits to projects on the University of Iceland campus give students insight into sustainability research and efforts in Iceland. Invited expert Wolff-Michael Roth leads a seminar on activism in teaching and learning. Students collaborate on assignments that build their academic skills, including proposal writing and poster design. The course culminates in a mini-conference in which students present their posters and give short talks.

The course relates to the goals of the UNESCO Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014. It presents perspectives and achievements on how science forms part of sustainability education. It is organised in cooperation with the doctoral programme in the School of Education of the University of Iceland.

Participants earn 6 credits for a pre-course assignment, a short proposal and preparation of a poster during the course. Additional 2 credits are available for completing a post-course written assignment, due end of June 2012.

Invited experts

Specialists in sustainability and science education from the University of Iceland and Nordic partners.

Wolff-Michael Roth, Research Professor, Griffith University, Mt Gravatt, QLD, Australia

Support from NorSEd

The NorSEd network covers hotel accommodation with breakfast from Sunday 22 April to Saturday 28 April and lunches for five days (Monday to Friday) for up to 20 participants. NorSEd also has travel grants for participants, and we hope to be able to cover travel for all participants travelling from Nordic countries. For this reason we ask you to state your approximate travel costs in the registration form. PhD students will be given priority.

Information in pdf: Science and Sustainability Education, Spring 2012  [pdf]

Organizers

Jari Lavonen, University of Helsinki & Berit Bungum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Topic of the course

Design-based research approach (DBR) has been suggested as a solution for the discontinuation between educational research and praxis. It is a general framework for design, development, implementation and evaluation of learning activities and it uses a pragmatic frame. DBR emphasises three aspects: (a) a design process is essentially iterative starting from the recognition of the need to change praxis, (b) it generates a widely usable artefact, like learning activities or a learning environment, (c) and it provides educational knowledge for more intelligible praxis. DBR is comprised of the combination of theory development, the prescriptions of successful design processes, and the prescriptions of successful design solutions.

The course gives 7.5 credits provided an assignment paper on DBR is presented and accepted. It also requires participating in the review of one other paper in the group of participants.

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