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Training in Astronomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

M. Gerbaldi
M. Gerbaldi*
Affiliation:
CNRS Institut d’Astrophysique and Université de Paris Sud XI98bis Bd Arago, 75014 Paris, France, e-mail: [email protected]

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Astronomy offers a unique opportunity for promoting the science teaching in its present crisis. Astronomy can be introduced at various levels and become the medium by which both primary science education and public understanding of science are stimulated.

At the University level, astronomy can be introduced in the curricula of university colleges and be a subject for M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees. Astronomy, can give students the opportunity to work scientifically from observations and known physical laws in order to derive knowledge in another field of science. Astronomy can be taught with less formalism and more experimentation, giving students a feel for the link between a phenomenon and its theoretical representation, and how and why a given observation can be represented by different theoretical models.

Type
II. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 11 , Issue 2: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXIIIrd General Assembly of the IAU (Part B), 1997 , 1998 , pp. 910 - 911
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998

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The Centre de Données Astronomiques de Strasbourg (Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center) can be reached at the following addresses :

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