Future-oriented Science EDucation to enhance Responsibility and engagement in the society of Acceleration and uncertainty

Project Information

FEDORA

Grant agreement ID: 872841

DOI 10.3030/872841

Project closed

EC signature date 10 June 2020

Start date 1 September 2020

End date 31 August 2023

Funded under

• Integrate society in science and innovation issues, policies and activities in order to integrate citizens' interests and values and to increase the quality, relevance, social acceptability and sustainability of research and innovation outcomes in various fields of activity from social innovation to areas such as biotechnology and nanotechnology

Total cost € 1 065 138,00

EU contribution € 1 065 138,00

Coordinated by

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA
Italy

Deliverables

Documents, reports (10)

"""Model for science education for the society of acceleration and uncertainty"""

The document includes guidelines targeted at science education researchers teachers educators in formal nonformal and informal contexts science communicators and professional institutions with science education and communication in their mission The guidelines articulate three main sections the first section includes the theoretical and pedagogical framework of the approach to science education the second section includes a list of design and implementation principles aimed to operationalize the theoretical and pedagogical approaches into practical recommendations Principles and recommendations concern both the design and implementation of teaching materials but also the creation of interdisciplinary multiactor contexts and the implementation of coteaching and openschooling models In the third section the principles are illustrated through case studies or examples taken from the implementations

"Report entitled ""FR2 - Framework for aligning science education with society: the search for new languages and narratives to enhance imagination and the capacity to talk about the contemporary challenges"""

The report represents the main result of WP2 and contains the results from the analysis on existing showcases of use of innovative languages and narratives informal and nonformal contexts effective in dealing with complexity interdisciplinarity andor futurization of science the description of results from Workshop I and II with a special focus on the resulting prototypes and their innovative features on the dimension of interdisciplinaritycomplexity and that of futurization in the framework of accelerationa set of recommendations to revise andor redesign new materials and activities for science education exploiting the innovations highlighted by the workshops

"Report entitled ""FR1 - Framework for aligning science teaching/learning in formal contexts with the modus operandi of R&I: new inter-multi-transdisciplinary forms of knowledge organization for co-teaching and open-schooling"""

The report represents the main result of WP1 and contains a results of the crossnational quantitative and qualitative surveys among institutional stakeholders about the limits and potential of the current organization of knowledge in disciplines as well as a report on the institutional scientific conceptual and cultural barriers induced by the current organization of the teaching courses b results of study group about possible intermultitransdisciplinary forms of knowledge organization and forms of coteaching and openschooling needed to implement them c recommendations for the design of materials and activities aimed to develop thinking skills needed by the young generation to get oriented in the complexity of the contemporary world and play an active role as coproducers andor users of scientific knowledge in the society of acceleration

"Report on ""Policy Makers' Views on a Model of Science Education for the Society of Acceleration and Uncertainty - the FEDORA Concept"""

The document contains the results of the study about policy makers views on the Model of Science Education for the Society of Acceleration and Uncertainty elaborated within FEDORA

"Guidelines for RPOs, RFOs, HEIs and high schools on ""Promoting futurized science education as key dimension of RRI"""

The report contains guidelines for RPOs RFOs HEIs and high schools aimed to promote futurized science education as key dimension of RRI

"Report entitled ""FR3 - Framework to futurize science education"""

The report represents the main result of WP3 and contains a the results of the desk research on curricula textbooks and other educational materials for science teaching carried out to recognize if and how future is part of science education and communication b the results of the qualitative data analysis that focuses on the visions and perceptions that the young have of the future c a set of recommendations for the design or revision of materials and activities in order to futurize science education

Future-oriented science education manifesto

This document reports about the Manifesto an inspirational booklet presented in a visual and multimedia way including snapshot scenarios on possible futures

Policy brief

A policy brief is elaborated from the progressive reports produced in WP123 D11 D21 D31 M14 The final version is disseminated in the final conference in Brussels

"Report on ""FEDORA materials' effectiveness to develop thinking and future-scaffolding skills and to foster aware, responsible and proactive engagement with science: results from two round implementations and from the external evaluation"""

The report contains the main results of the two round implementations and the main results from the external evaluation These results will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of FEDORA materials to reach the following goals to develop thinking and futurescaffolding skills and to foster aware responsible and proactive engagement with science

"Report on ""FEDORA materials' effectiveness to develop thinking and future-scaffolding skills and to foster aware, responsible and proactive engagement with science: results and hypotheses from the first round implementations"""

The report contains the main results of the first round implementations and some hypotheses to evaluate the effectiveness of FEDORA materials to reach the following goals to develop thinking and futurescaffolding skills and to foster aware responsible and proactive engagement with science

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (5)

Multimedia report of Intensive workshop I on acceleration, complexity and interdisciplinarity

The deliverable contains the main results from the first Intensive workshop on acceleration complexity and interdisciplinary It is a multimedia product

Multimedia report of Intensive workshop II on futurization

The deliverable contains the main results from the second Intensive workshop on futurization It is a multimedia product

FEDORA project official video

2min engaging video is produced to present the project its partners and its main goals

FEDORA podcast

A series of five 15min long episodes is produced by the communication team to provide a narrative description and analysis of FEDORA main objectives actions and findings

FEDORA visual identity and project website

This deliverable concerns the creation of the project website and the design of the visual identity

Publications

Thesis and dissertations (4)

Analysis of an interdisciplinary approach for teaching artificial intelligence in secondary schools through co-planning and co-teaching methodologies: a proposal for the open schooling model of the FEDORA project

Author(s): Molinari Irene
Published in: AlmaDL, 2023
Publisher: AlmaDL

Complex systems simulations to develop agency and citizenship skills through science education

Author(s): Barelli, Eleonora
Published in: AlmaDL, 2022
Publisher: AMS Dottorato Institutional Doctoral Theses Repository
DOI: 10.48676/unibo/amsdottorato/10146

Investigating the learning potential of the Second Quantum Revolution: development of an approach for secondary school students

Author(s): Satanassi, Sara
Published in: AlmaDL, 2023
Publisher: AMS Dottorato Institutional Doctoral Theses Repository
DOI: 10.48676/unibo/amsdottorato/10716

Futurising science education : Technology, agency and scientific literacy

Author(s): Rosa Tapio
Published in: Helsinki Studies in Education, 2023, ISSN 2489-2297
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI OPEN REPOSITORY

Peer reviewed articles (9)

Imagining the School of the Future Through Computational Simulations: Scenarios’ Sustainability and Agency as Keywords

Author(s): Eleonora Barelli
Published in: Frontiers in Education, 2022, ISSN 2504-284X
Publisher: Lausanne Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-
DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2022.897582

Agency and Transformative Potential of Technologyin Students’ Images of the Future

Author(s): Tapio Rasa, Jari Lavonen, Antti Laherto
Published in: Science & Education, 2023, ISSN 2195-2248
Publisher: Heidelberg Berlin Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s11191-023-00432-9

Enhancing relevance and authenticity in school science: design of two prototypical activities within the FEDORA project

Author(s): Francesco De Zuani Cassina, Emma D’Orto, Giulia Tasquier, Paola Fantini, Olivia Levrini
Published in: Frontiers in Education, 2023, ISSN 2504-284X
Publisher: Lausanne Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-
DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2023.1085526

Young people’s technological images of the future: implications for science and technology education

Author(s): Tapio Rasa & Antti Laherto
Published in: SpringerOpen, 2022, ISSN 2195-2248
Publisher: Heidelberg Berlin Springer
DOI: 10.1186/s40309-022-00190-x

Editorial: Future-oriented science education for agency and sustainable development

Author(s): Antti Laherto, Olivia Levrini, Sibel Erduran
Published in: Frontiers in Education, 2023, ISSN 2504-284X
Publisher: Lausanne Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-
DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2023.1155507

Policymakers’ Views of Future-Oriented Skills in Science Education

Author(s): Ioannidou, O; Erduran, S
Published in: Frontiers in Education, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2504-284X
Publisher: Lausanne Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2022.910128

A conversation on the pragmatics of open schooling: Reflections after twoEuropean projects

Author(s): Giulia Tasquier and Alfredo Jornet
Published in: Education in Science, 2023, ISSN 0013-1377
Publisher: Education in science
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10117887

Making sense of youth futures narratives: Recognition of emerging tensions in students’ imagination of the future

Author(s): Eleonora Barelli; Giulia Tasquier; Martina Caramaschi; Sara Satanassi; Paola Fantini; Laura Branchetti; Olivia Levrini
Published in: Frontiers in Education, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 2504-284X
Publisher: Lausanne Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-
DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2022.911052

Computational simulations at the interface of physics and society: A teaching-learning module for high-school students

Author(s): E. Barelli, O. Levrini
Published in: Il Nuovo Cimento C, 2022, ISSN 1826-9885
Publisher: SIF
DOI: 10.1393/ncc/i2022-22213-6

Monographic books (1)

Future-oriented Science Education Building Sustainability Competences: An Approach to the European GreenComp Framework

Author(s): Laherto, A., Rasa, T., Miani, L., Levrini, O., & Erduran, S.
Published in: Science Curricula for The Anthropocene: Curriculum Models for our Collective Future, 2023
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Conference proceedings (1)

Analyzing Students' Writings on the Future: Types of Agentic Orientations

Author(s): Antti Laherto, Tapio Rasa
Published in: AERA 2023 online proceedings, 2023
Publisher: AERA
DOI: 10.3102/1884845