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HSci 2016- Hands-on Science 2016: the Heart of Science Education
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
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| Description | GENERAL INFORMATION: The 13th annual international conference on Hands-on Science, HSCI2016, took place in Brno, at the Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, from July 18th to 22th 2016. The HSci2016 conference “Hands-on- the Heart of Science Education” was organized under the patronage of the Mayor of the City of Brno, Petr Vokřál and with financial support by the City of Brno. This year the main moto of the conference was: Hands-on – the Heart of Science Education. The Conference provided the ideal opportunity for presentation of work and in the widest range of perspectives related to Science Education. However, were advocated an active learning of Sciences through an enlarged use of hands-on experiments in the classroom. The aim of the Conference was to promote friendly and broad exchange of experiences on good practices, syllabus and policy matters, social factors and the learning of science, and other issues related to Science Education and its development. CONFERENCE TOPICS: The HSCI’2016 Conference covered the largest variety of topics relevant to Science Education and all fields of Science and Technology: Physics, Chemistry, Geography, Biology, Life Sciences, Geology, Zoology, Botanic, Ecology, Archaeology, Astrophysics, Mathematics, Robotics, Computer Science, Sociology, Psychology, Health Sciences, etc. |