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country-by-country

situation

for

IBST

and

Teacher

Professional

Development,

across

the

national

partners.

Work

package

description

Work

Package

2,

led

by

the

University

of

Oslo

(UIO),

will

be

responsible

for

collecting

and

analysing

data

on

policy

and

practice

in

order

to

produce

an

overview

of

the

current

and emerging  situation regarding teacher education, science teaching and innovative methods. This overview, produced in  the form of two reports together with pages on this website, will detail the complex interaction of policy,  research and practice in this area, using data from the consortium's National Liaison Partners (NLP) and from contact with  key actors in the policy community. WP2 will promote the development of a new network connecting teacher  education policy with science education policy. Its initial task will be to collect evidence about national policy and practice through a series of workshops in each of the consortium countries, attended by  staff members from WP2 and WP3. All national liaison partners will provide a description of the policy situation and thestate-of-the-art

in

science

teacher

education

in

their

own

countries.

  These

descriptions

will

be

discussed

during

workshops

which

will

be

held

in

conjunction

with

the

workshops

for

the

consideration

of

SINUS

modules

in

WP3,

in

order

to

avoid

excessive

travel.

  The

workshops

will

involve

the

national

liaison

partners

(NLP)

and

key

actors

in

science

education.

  NLPs

have

each

been

allocated

3PM

in

WP3

to

cover

the

tasks

of

setting

up

and

attending

the

workshops.

see

National

workshops

for

more

information,

including

an

updated

paper

from

Doris

and

Matthias.

WP2's

preliminary

report

will

incorporate

findings

from

the

ongoing

Mind

the

Gap

project,

and

will

provide

state-of-the-art

knowledge

of

IBST/E

and

its

effectiveness.

An

international

policy

workshop

will

be

held

within

the

first

nine

months

of

the

project

to

bring

together

the

key

players in  European science education and teacher education.  WP2 will also be responsible for input to a major conference, to be held in Glasgow on 14/15 October 2010. These activities will be designed to  create a community of policymakers and academics which will be responsive both to research  findings and to teachers' practical situations. The work will be performed by a researcher based at UIO, under the direction of Prof.Doris Jorde with the assistance of Prof.Kirsti Klette.  Additionally, key players may be interviewed by the  assistant or by national partners to clarify areas of particularimportance. The impact of WP2 will be achieved through the  broad reach of the consortium, which provides the most authoritative network of science and  teacher educators in Europe.  It will also work through existing research networks, such as EERA,  ASE and ESERA.

Deliverables WP2:

2.1 Policy and practice workshops programme, combined national events x 15 with WP3 divided into part A (WP2) and part B (SINUS)  (M6)

2.2 Preliminary policy report (M9): suggested length - pp.20-30

2.3 International policy conference (M18)

2.4 Final report on policy and practice in science education (M33)

Persons involved: Doris Jorde, Kirste Klette, +?