Our final event for the COSMOS project took place at Winchester Science Centre, hosted by Andy Keenan and Jenny Hoppe. This was an event dedicated to celebrating all the hard work that teachers and pupils, and the project team at Southampton Education School and Winchester Science Centre put into the project. We had about 160…
On Saturday, November 2nd, we hosted a vibrant one-day conference in partnership with the British Society for Research on Learning Mathematics (BSRLM). The event brought together 85 attendees, including more than a dozen local colleagues and no fewer than seven presentations contributions from our Southampton Education School (SES) colleagues. The conference also provided valuable opportunities…
Title: The transition from school to university mathematics: a crisis in context Speaker: Dr Paola Iannone, University of Edinburgh Date: Tuesday, 19th of November 2024 Time: 12:00 – 13:00 Location: 32/2097 and via Zoom Abstract: When reporting on the transition from school to university mathematics, seldom the educational context is considered as a factor that shapes students’ experiences….
PhD student Jiachen Hao is now recruiting participants for her research! If you are interested in how Chinese students learn while writing, or would like to help with our research, please register by scanning QR code or contact Jiachen at jh13n20@soton.ac.uk. Please find more information about the research in the poster below.
The research seminar series at Southampton Education School is back for the Autumn Term 2024-2025! ! The first research seminar this semester is from our research centre on the topic of “The Grenfell Curriculum: Centring the disaster-affected community to promote education for social justice” with Dr Wonyong Park and Hanan Wahabi from the Grenfell Tower…
A new paper by Dr Wonyong Park, Prof Insook Lim and Prof Jinwoong Song has been published. In the article ” Exploring the intersection of disasters and science education with preservice science teachers through a disaster case study”, they looked at a public health (chemical) disaster in South Korea to explore the possibility of teaching…
Dr Andri Christodoulou along with Mart Doms from Karel de Grote University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Belgium presented part of the work done for the EU-funded H2020 COSMOS project at the recent ECER 2024 conference in Nicosia, Cyprus. The research talk titled ‘How socioscientific inquiry-based learning (SSIBL) in communities of practice fosters students’ science…
During 1-5th July 2024, Dr Andri Christodoulou attended ERIDOB 2024, presenting her current work on the COSMOS project. Andri along with other partners from the COSMOS project, had the opportunity to present and share some of the on-going work and initial findings from the COSMOS project as part of a symposium at the 14th conference of…
PhD student Jingwen Song attended the Conference for Research in Early Childhood Education (CRECE) 2024 at The Education University of Hong Kong, China from 1-3 June, and presented her project on climate change education in early childhood. Her presentation focused on the design of the teacher professional development programme, how the programme activities can help…
SEEN meeting 26th June 2024, hosted at the Hawthorns Centre, at Southampton Common Safety and Ecology at Southampton Common Dawn Bannatyne, Head Ranger, Southampton Common, A Short walk on Southampton Common and talk about management issues; plus an overview of their work and how the Rangers can offer advice to schools about improving grounds for…