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CREAT-IT: Implementing Creative Strategies into Science Teaching

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New Developments in Science and Technology Education

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Recent EU recommendations and decisions about the future of educational systems, and recent research initiatives in pedagogical and educational issues, recommend that efforts should be dedicated to motivating the school community to use creative teaching and learning practices in their day-to-day activities. More specifically, creativity and innovation in the teaching of science will help achieve the EUROPE 2020 targets concerned with educational targets. This paper will present the proposed methodology to support creative strategies in science teaching through the pedagogical framework that has been developed by the CREAT-IT [19] project and integrates the arts with science teaching. This framework supports the implementation of a series of training workshops for teachers and subsequent work with their students in schools. The implementation stages will be evaluated so as to conclude with specific recommendations about practices which can be followed in the future.

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    The project CREATIVE LITTLE SCIENTISTS received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no. 289081. Website: http://www.creative-little-scientists.eu/

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  1. University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

    Anna Craft, Sarah Hennessy, Kerry Chappell, Charlotte Slade, Margo Greenwood & Alison Black

  2. Stord Haugesund University College (HSH), Stord, Norway

    Oded Ben Horin

  3. Science View, Pallini, Greece

    Menelaos Sotiriou

  4. Ellinogermaniki Agogi (EA), Pallini, Greece

    Petros Stergiopoulos

  5. Ellinogermaniki Agogi, R&D, Pallini, Athens, Greece

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  6. Center for the Promotion of Science (CPN), Beograd, Serbia

    Erić Lale Dobrivoje, Đurđa Timotijević, Aleksandra Drecun & Ana Brajović

  7. FormaScienza (FS), Rome, Italy

    Cinzia Belmontecinzia & Giovanna Conforto

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Craft, A. et al. (2016). CREAT-IT: Implementing Creative Strategies into Science Teaching. In: Riopel, M., Smyrnaiou, Z. (eds) New Developments in Science and Technology Education. Innovations in Science Education and Technology, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22933-1_15

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