Does school need to be competitive?

Various authors

Volume of the national review ‘Annali della Pubblica Istruzione’ (‘Annals of Public Education’)

Italian

This work reports about forty different examples of activities that were carried out during the 2008 competition “ Didactic of science”, in some secondary schools (allover Italy). The activities were structured as experimental projects, each focused on a particular topic, for example: food, materials, energy, etc.
One of the main conclusion was that it is very important for the scientific disciplins to take not only a theoretical, but also experimental approach to improve interest in science.

This paper provides a large number of examples (with detailed procedures, comments and conclusions) very useful for the teachers which are interested in an experimental approach to teach sciences.

http://www.annaliistruzione.it/riviste/annali/rivistaannali.htm

Dr.Anna Maria Cardinale

Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale - University of Genoa

Researcher