Selected Papers on Hands-on Science (vol. 1)
The International Association “Hands-on Science Network” was established in the sequence of the Comenius 3 project “Hands-on Science” partially financed by the European Commission in the frames of the Socrates Program, from October 2003, coordinated by the University of Minho and involving over 200 institutional members from all over the EU. Now the Hands-on Science Network is a non-profit organization legally registered in Portugal. With a broad open understanding of the meaning and importance of Science to the development of our societies, each individual and of the humankind, the main goal of the Network is the development and improvement of science education and scientific literacy by an extended use of investigative hands-on experiments based learning of Science and its applications.
Among the many diferent activities we organised, our annual conferences (and workshops) were particularly successful. Apart from allowing and promoting an open broad and friendly exchange of experiences on good practices in all aspects and perspectives on Science Education bettween the one thousand participants, over 500 very interesting and meaningful works were published. It represents a set of work material of the highest interest to the Science and Science Education community. Among those a good number of papers are of especially high quality and relevance.
The papers herein were selected and reviewed by the conferences’ program committees and the board of the Hands-on Science Network. The papers are organised chronologically per conference allowing also, in some way, to access the evolution in these matters on last 5 years. My first paper will give the readers an idea of the goals, planning methods and strategies of the Hands-on Science project.
We think this book will be an invaluable tool to all readers and are looking forward to welcome the active involvement of all in our Hands-on Science Network
…towards a better Science Education…
Manuel Filipe Pereira da Cunha Martins Costa
(Chair)
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