JENAM SPECIAL SESSION 5: Astronomy Education IN EUROPE

20-22 August 2007

Contact: Magda Stavinschi (Romania)

SOC / Conveners

Hayk Harutyunyan (Armenia), Areg Mickaelian (Armenia), Magda Stavinschi (Romania, Chair).

Topics:

- International astronomy education and development
- Effective teaching and learning at the university level
- Development of astronomy curriculum for schools
- Education research
- Planetariums and science
- Amateur astronomers and astronomy education
- Multicultural astronomy

Invited speakers:

Balkowski C. (Observatoire de Paris, France)
Dennefeld M. (IAP, France, TBC)
Stavinschi M. (Astronomical Institute, Romania)

Program

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

11:00-11:40       Michel Dennefeld: Astronomical Observing Schools at the Wider European Level (invited)

11:40-12:10     Magda STAVINSCHI: IYA2009 Asks a Better Astronomical Education in Europe 

12:10-12:30     Haik Harutyunian: Astronomy Education in Armenia 

12:30-14:00       Lunch break

14:00-14:20       Natalia Shakht: Pulkovo Observatory – One of the Main Centers of Astronomical Education in Russia      

14:20-14:40       Ara Avetissian: New Master Program of Astrophysics and Specialization Courses for Matriculates of the Yerevan State University 

14:40-15:00       Dileep Sathe: Pasiphae: a Logical Lesson from it     

15:00-15:20       Thorir Sigurdsson: Modernized Newtonian Cosmology in Secondary Schools    

15:30-16:00       Coffee break

POSTERS

SPS5-P01. Valeria Borovik, Olga Kiyaeva, Natalia Shakht: The Popularization of Astronomy in the Children Ecological Expedition

SPS5-P02. Mauro D’Onofrio: The Sky as a Laboratory

SPS5-P03. Petr Tarakanov, Maria Kostina, Boris Eskin: Astronomical Olympiads in Russia

SPS5-P04. Lev Zhukov, Boris Eskin: Forms and Methods of Astronomical Training of Students 

SPS5-P05. Elena Panko: Influence of Atmospheric Absorption on Visibility of Galaxies