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Seminar
on Science Education: |
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Seminar on Science Education Programme – Trends and Future initiatives was
held on May 16-17, 2002 at INSA premises under the Convenership of Prof. V. Krishnan.
The seminar was mainly focused on experience sharing in science education bringing
together those responsible for improving curricula, science textbooks, educationists,
teachers from both formal and non-formal sector; those responsible for the professional
development of teachers of science; those involved in assessment in science education
and also those interested in science popularization and dissemination of science.
Attended by more than 65 participants from 39 organizations, who also displayed
their initiatives in this area in the form of posters, science kits and books.
Broadly seminar focused on science teaching (changing emphasis for teaching; professional
development for teachers) and science contents in different branches of science;
assessment in science education; science popularization and dissemination. The
deliberations has been published by INSA in the form of a report Capacity
Building in Science and Technology.A
Seminar on Science Education Programme – Trends and Future initiatives was
held on May 16-17, 2002 at INSA premises under the Convenership of Prof. V. Krishnan.
The seminar was mainly focused on experience sharing in science education bringing
together those responsible for improving curricula, science textbooks, educationists,
teachers from both formal and non-formal sector; those responsible for the professional
development of teachers of science; those involved in assessment in science education
and also those interested in science popularization and dissemination of science.
Attended by more than 65 participants from 39 organizations, who also displayed
their initiatives in this area in the form of posters, science kits and books.
Broadly seminar focused on science teaching (changing emphasis for teaching; professional
development for teachers) and science contents in different branches of science;
assessment in science education; science popularization and dissemination. The
deliberations has been published by INSA in the form of a report Capacity
Building in Science and Technology.
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Seminar
on Science & Media: |
A
one day Seminar on Science & the Media was held on 5th August 2002 under the
Convenership of Prof D Balasubramaniam. Based on experience sharing, the seminar
brought together a host of leading personalities engaged in science popularization
and dissemination, both from science and media fields. The seminar began with
the presentation of Indira Gandhi Prize for popularization of Science (2002) to
Professor D Balasubramanian.
The seminar was divided into five sessions.
The first session was devoted to publication of journals in popular domain (Sunita
Narayan of Down to Earth; N Mukunda of Resonance and Parvinder Chawla of Science
Reporter and Vigyan Pragati); |
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Balasubramanian |
second
session was on presenting science in the popular press (R Shankar of New Indian
Express and Subhadra Menon of TERI); third session on presenting science in the
audio visual media (Manmohan Chaudhury of Turning Point); fourth session on Indian
Science in the professional press (KS Jayaraman of NATURE, Pallav Baghla of Science
and Nirupa Sen of Current Science) and the final session dealt with publications
of the Indian National Science Academy (MS Jairajpuri, Vice-President, INSA –
Publications / Informatics). Each of the above sessions generated a lot of discussions
and interesting points emerged from this interaction. While wrapping - up the
entire day’s proceedings, Professor Balasubramanian discussed the recommendations
made in each session and suggested action points at the end of the seminar as
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The
dialogue between practicing scientists and practicing journalists should increase.
Short-term internships for journalists in R&D laboratories will help them
to appreciate scientific activities in greater measure leading to better coverage
in the media.
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List
of scientists with precise expertise should be made available to the journalists
so that whenever a new story breaks, these scientists can be contacted for checking
the importance and correctness of the story.
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SPIC-
MACAY kind of voluntary institutions should be created to organize popular science
lectures among student community.
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Popular
science programmes like ‘turning point’ should be revived on television.
Institutions could pool in money to create a fund to run such programmes throughout
the year.
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