'Energy in Education' Group

The Special Issue "Energy in Education" of the ' Review of Science, Mathematics and ICT Education' is published. The articles of special issue are posted at http://resmicte.lis.upatras.gr/. See also the articles: a) Energy in education ; b) Is it possible to teach energy in pre-school education? (Paper presented in the "The World Conference on Physics Education" (1-6 July 2012, Istanbul, Turkey)

During the ‘ 6th National Conference on Science in Preschool Education ’ (Alexandroupolis, Greece, 3-5/12/2010) a 3hours  workshop was organized, where preschool and primary education teachers was given the opportunity to became familiar and comment teaching materials relative to the teaching of  energy in 6-7years old children See photos below

Koliopoulos, D. & Argyropoulou, M. (2010). Constructing qualitative energy concepts in a formal educational context with 6-7 year old students. Review of Science, Mathematics and ICT Education, 5(1), 63-80. To download please click here . Koliopoulos, D. & Argyropoulou, M. (2010). Constructing qualitative energy concepts in a formal educational context with 6-7 year old students. Paper presented to the conference 'ENSEIGNER LES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES : REPRÉSENTATIONS, ACTIVITÉS, INTÉRACTIONS, PRATIQUES, FORMATIONS…, Marseille, 8-11/12/2010.  To download p lease click here .

Organiser: Department of Educational Science and Early Childhood Education, University of Patras Date: Tuesday 23/03/2009 Address: University of Patras, Rion 26500 Patras, Greece Registration type: External registration Area: Education Description: The conference is addressed to preschool and primary teachers in order to inform them about energy matters and the ways in which they can incorporate into their teaching the subject of energy and particularly the subject of renewable sources of energy. The conference consists of two parts. In the first part, researchers on renewable sources of energy from the University of Patras (Greece) will talk about the research they are conducting and the dissemination of the resulting knowledge within society and education. Moreover, researchers in the field of science education will introduce the notion of the didactical transformation of this knowledge into knowledge suitable for children of an early age. In the second part of the conferenc...