| Astrophysics, and how to attract young people into Physics |
2005 is the World Year of Physics. As the centenary of Einstein's papers is celebrated throughout the world, there is however no certainty to find enough young scientists to take over this heritage in the near future. In this context, it is useful to wonder how to attract young people into Phyics. Astrophysics definitely seems a very useful "tool" to reach this objective, since it has always fascinated Humanity and can thus easily find a very large public.
This parallel session aims at sharing the experience of teaching astronomy from primary to graduate schools. Concrete solutions will be presented during this session. Fully-tested and very efficient tools should be proposed to the astronomers interested in astronomy education.
In this context, direct collaborations between scientists and teachers and meetings of scientists with students could be discussed.
Scientific committee for this workshop:
| Nazé Yaël | ULg, Belgium (co-chair) | |
| Magda Stavinschi | Astron. Inst. of the Romanian Academy, Romania (co-chair) | |
| Martine Vanherck | ULg, Belgium |
Afternoon talks:
| Wednesday - 6 July 2005 Room: R52 | |
| 13h30~13h50 | The importance of Scientific literacy in our Society Jose M. Rodriguez-Espinosa |
| 13h50-14h10 | Is mass media beneficial or not for the information of the general public? Magda Stavinschi & Catalin Mosoia |
| 14h10-14h30 | A network dedicated to sciences dissemination : Scité Marie Botman (for the Scité network) |
| 14h30-14h50 | Education projects at ESO Henri Boffin |
| 14h50-15h10 | EAAE and Astronomy for European schools Fernand Wagner |
| 15h10-15h30 | Bringing science into schools through astronomy. Project ASTRO, Tucson (USA), 2002-2003 Caroline Barban & Hervé Dole |
| 15h30-16h00 | Coffee |
| 16h00-16h20 | La main à la pâte: the French undertaking to renovate science education in primary schools Pierre Léna & Emmanuel Di Folco |
| 16h20-16h40 | Stars in the eyes, birth of a vocation ? Yaël Nazé |
| 16h40-17h00 | Imagine all the students... living zero-G Hélène Decauwer & Hervé Caps |
| 17h00-17h15 | Astronomy and astrophysics in Kosice Rudolf Galis & Peter Kanuk |
| 17h15-18h00 | General discussion |
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