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There is a growing consensus that formal education should cultivate students’ creativity and critical thinking skills to help them succeed in modern, globalised economies based on knowledge and innovation. However, the goal is hindered by a limited understanding of how these skills can be embedded in everyday teaching and learning and assessed reliably. For education systems, promoting creativity and critical thinking in more systematic and effective ways requires developing strategies and tools that help teachers, students and policy makers to articulate these skills more visibly and tangibly, especially as part of the curriculum.

As part of the case study in Lisbon, the C3Places Project organised in the period of May 27th to 30th, 2019 four sessions of public space design in the Secondary School Padre Antonio Vieira, in Alvalade. In order to boost awareness and to call the attention of all students to the workshop sessions, the Project team posed some questions about students’ spatial practices in a fun and informal way. A board called Tear de Ideas (Portuguese for loom of ideas) was placed in the school atrium containing seven multiple choice questions displayed in columns. For each school grade different coloured woollen yarn hang next to the questions; to answer the questions the students wrapped the yarn around the corresponding nail.

The project “Family-based Open Science Schooling”, with Professor Ana Benavente as CeiED’s Principal Investigator, will take place in will take place in the period 2019/2021. The main objectives are: to encourage families to participate in school life and in their activities; co-create ‘science for all’ activities in which teachers, students and families interact to support responsible scientific education; and to support the implementation of Joint Science Missions involving the community.

The project is coordinated by University Pole Leonard de Vinci (France), and has the following partners: Lusofona University (Portugal), University of Catania (Italy), Oslo Metropolitan University (Norway), NetPort Science Park (Sweden), Claned (Finland).

Coordenador Científico do CeiED nomeado membro do Comité Executivo da WCCE

On 3 and 4 July, an Open Seminar was held at the Universidade Lusófona, in Lisbon, on the project A Success Story? Portugal and PISA (2000-2015). Detailed information on this project, under development at CeiED and funded by FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology, can be found here.