Giugno 2008 Dijon (Francia)
di: Elena Camino
Pubblicato il: 19/11/2008 10:20:12
The Conference BioEd 2008 aims to:
- explore the linkages among biological sciences, the environment, sustainable development and society;
- promote bioliteracy and education reforms that integrate biology, sustainability, health, wellbeing, ethics and citizenship;
- provide recommendations for improving education worldwide in support of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainability, adopted for 2005-2015.
The core of sustainability: Life Sciences at school!
Daniela MARCHETTI, Marta ANGELOTTI, Elena Camino, Alice BENESSIA, , Laura COLUCCI-GRAY. IRIS Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Sustainability [www.iris.unito.it]
ABSTRACT
Education in Life Sciences has a great responsibility in helping students to develop awareness of the complexity and limits of natural services, and make people conscious of the complete dependence of humanity on Earth’s natural systems. This approach to biology education stems from a revision of scientific epistemology and of the relationships between Science and Society, and requires a profound transformation of the educational context and of the relationships between teachers and students.