Joy
delivering her session entitled Linking
Science and Technology via Industry Contexts
Joy Parvin, Co-Director of CIEC, was invited to speak at the
2015 International Science Education Symposium in Nanjing, China. Joy and Derek Bell were the only two speakers from
the UK.
Joy talked about the importance of making science relevant to
pupils by setting it in industrial contexts.
The international audience were particularly interested in CIEC’s post
16 online resource The Essential Chemical
Industry which gives worldwide information on manufacture, uses and
production figures of the most widely used industrial chemicals. There was also
interest in one of CIECs most popular primary resources, The Science of Healthy Skin, which is currently being translated
into Mandarin. Joy was able to
demonstrate how CIEC sets science concepts in real industrial contexts using
these online resources and associated practical science investigations.
Joy felt that the CIEC contribution was well received,
“Being invited to speak at the symposium enabled CIEC to reach a wider Chinese
audience. Another delegation of teachers/science educators from major cities in
China is returning to York later this year for both primary and secondary
training thus strengthening the York-Nanjing working relationship”.
Joy with Derek Bell (second from the left) at one of the
sessions
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