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Clea: Aims and Activities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

L. Gouguenheim ,
L. Bottinelli ,
J. Dupré  and
M. Gerbaldi
L. Gouguenheim
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris, Section de Meudon, 92195 Cedex, France Université Paris Sud, Centre d’Orsay, Bât. 470, 91405 Cedex, France
L. Bottinelli
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris, Section de Meudon, 92195 Cedex, France Université Paris Sud, Centre d’Orsay, Bât. 470, 91405 Cedex, France
J. Dupré
Affiliation:
Université Paris Sud, Centre d’Orsay, Bât. 470, 91405 Cedex, France
M. Gerbaldi
Affiliation:
Université Paris Sud, Centre d’Orsay, Bât. 470, 91405 Cedex, France Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, 98 bis, Bd. Arago, 75014 Paris, France

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The Liaison Committee between School-Teachers and Astronomers (in French, “Comité de Liaison Enseignants Astronomes” or CLEA) was officially created about ten years ago under its present form, but its story began in 1970. In that time, there was no astronomy at all in French school programs, neither in elementary nor in secondary schools.

A discussion was beginning about introducing physics earlier in the curriculum, with a specific purpose, the main ideas being (i) to avoid too much formalism (and formalism is a strong general characteristic of French science teaching) and (ii) to concentrate on experimentation and on the various representations of natural phenomena.

Type
10. Teacher Training
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 105: The Teaching of Astronomy , 1990 , pp. 287 - 294
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990