SCISSORS
We develop an innovative approach which incorporates these two aspects. Not only does it help students find motivation to understand science while they discover their own competences in the process, but it also contributes to new, creative ways to teach science. This curriculum provides a channel through which the development of social competences can be included in already existing curricula of various school systems without having to make substantial sacrifices on the curriculum currently in use and, more importantly, without the need for new staff members to teach social competences as a separate subject.
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Project description
SCISSORS is an Erasmus+ funded project. The objectives of the project are:
- To develop a mindset where knowledge is interdisciplinary, where the division between sciences and humanities ends through creativity and critical thinking, observation and intuition, experiments and experience, analysis and feelings, interactions and reflections.
- To establish the theoretical background of a new type of curriculum and collect expected impacts in an E-book through a collaborative research process.
- To shape the attitude of schoolteachers towards the teaching of sciences and other subjects, where soft skills and critical, analytical thinking are not contrasted but in symbiosis.
- To design and develop a supporting toolbox which helps educators incorporate our proposed method, and train teachers to use it, also developing the toolbox further by piloting its use.
- To address students directly through a methodology that uses folk tales as a means to understand ourselves (and our
environment) better.
- To host workshops that allow the spreading of the new approach and can enhance future development in our educational systems.
