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The project
- Update stands for Understanding and Providing a Developmental Approach to Technology Education
- aim of the programme is to improve science and technology teaching in Europe in order to appeal young people to technology, especially girls
- new learning material and methods for three-age groups: early, Childhood, elementary school and general education shall result from the project
Fragmentation of technology education
Boys Girls
Professional Education
Comprehensive School, Lower Grades 1-6
Gymnasium
Comprehensive School, Higher Grades 7-9
Preschool education, kindergardens
Advancements to the State of the Art
Professional Education: EXPERTISE
Gymnasium, ages 16-18:DEEPER UNDERSTANDING, KNOW-HOW
Comprehensive School, Higher Grads, 7-9: BASIC UNDERSTANDING
Comprehensive School, Lower Grads, 1-6: INTEREST, BASIC SKILLS (encouragement, problem solving)
Early Childhood Education: CURIOSITY (introducing, experimenting with materials)
Innovative Aspects
- strong focus on early childhood and primary education
- most attitudes are shaped at these ages
- focus on girls, disseminate best practice examples
Girls’Day at a car centre in Soest
Girls’Day at a car centre in Soest, Germany
Girls‘Day – Future Prospects for Girls: Technology professions and crafts are presented to girls from ten years and upward
Aims of the project
- to examine why girls drop out from technology education at different stages of their education
- to create new ways and educational methods to make the image of technology and technological careers more attractive for both boys and girls
- to promote, encourage and mobilise especially girls and young women for engineering and technology both as a career and as active users of modern technology
Early Childhood Education (ECE)
- experiences for younger children focus on play, discovery and exploration
- older children enjoy a focus on more formal and complex experiences (science experiments, construction, design projects: planning, problem solving, applications of learned principles)
Tiny Tots Science Corner
Early Childhood Education (ECE)
- it is important- to encourage children to observe and experience their environment - to stimulate children’s curiosity, creativity and playfulness- to enhance the development of self-confidence of children in their ability to think up and carry out experiments and projects
Gender and Technology Education
- existing role models and attitudes of people around (toy marketing, children’s books and films etc. media, family members, neighborhood, teachers, peers)- connections with the wider community (working places)- self-image and identity- barriers (glass-ceilings) – visible and invisible- segregation by gender in learning situations / teaching
UPDATE Website
- a web-based collaborative environment- collaborative working space for the online editing and compilation of questionnaires and texts- a blog for supporting partner communication and dissemination activities, also participations of schools and children- work package spaces- mailing list- Update portfolio for workpackages 2-4- public part for diverse audiences- http://update.jyu.fi/index.php/
Multinational Project Consortium
- 16 partners from 11 different countries participate
- the research project is funded by the European Comission for the next three years
- UPDATE will be part of the Sixth Framework Programme of the EC
UPDATE Project Partners and Contact Persons
- University of Jyväskylä
- University of Glasgow
- IUFM University Institute for Teacher Training of Aix-Marseille
- "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi
- Ovidius University Constanta
- University of Tallinn
- Dortmund University of Applied Sciences
- University of Koblenz
UPDATE Project Partners
- FCRI Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation
- Competence Center Technology-Diversity-Equal Chances
- Institute of Philosophy at the Bratislava Slovak Academy of Sciences
- State College of Education in Vienna
- Regional Institute for Educational Research Marche
- Aristotle University
- University Complutense de Madrid
- IDEC S.A
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