The three-day Annual Conference 2025 of the Association of Science Education (ASE), one of largest education conference across the science teaching and learning spectrum in Europe is going to include over 250 sessions with keynotes, speakers and workshops offering a broad scope of professional development, along with a grand exhibition of publishers, exam boards, organisations and resource suppliers, as well as social events and more, inform the organizers of the event
In 2025, the conference will be held at the University of Nottingham from 9th to 11th January. The University happens to be the Alma Mater of this blogger, Dr Lalit Kishore.. He did a course in School Technology in 1977 on a Commonwealth Fellowship.
Furthermore, the names of the winners of the Findel-CASTME Awards-2024 will be announced during the conference and Dr Kishore, has been constantly a winner of the award since 2018. He has also participated in the ASE conferences in 1977 (Leister) and 1998 (Liverpool).
For the Findel-CASTME-2024 Award, Dr Kishore had sent the individual entry ""Initiating Pre-School Kids into Talking Science by Displaying and Demonstrating Sensory Development Activities at Annual Science Exhibition by Senior Students" as an innovative project at Vidya Bharati School, JJC-3, Jaipur, involving pre-primary kids and a syndicate entry "CREATING AND LINKING FOREST GARDEN TO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE CURRICULUM AT MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVEL: HEIGHTENING AWARENESS TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT" involving work at Som Gurukul, Kurukshetra, co-participated by Subhash Chauhan, Director and Pardeep, Science Instructor.
Presidential Address for the conference will be on the topic "Mind the gap! Challenging inequalities in school science engagement and participation" delivered by Professor Louise Archer, UCL Institute of Education. Gender inequity in STEM education is a key concern for science educators across the globe.
."School science continues to face intense challenges – from declining student interest, aspirations and confidence in science to longstanding inequalities in participation, underpinned by chronic underfunding, understaffing and overburdening of teachers," inform the conference organizers.
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