New magazine to boost curiosity-driven science teaching

Science in School, an interdisciplinary, international magazine aims to help European science teachers to make their science classes more interesting and to attract more young Europeans to careers in science and technology.

EIROforum, a partnership between Europe’s seven largest intergovernmental research organisations has launched the first international, multidisciplinary, free-of-charge journal for innovative science teaching, Science in School. 

Science in School  will appear quarterly online and in print and bring science teachers, scientists and other stakeholders in science education, news about the latest scientific discoveries and teaching materials. It will also feature reviews of books, films and websites and inform science teachers of other useful resources they can use to keep pupils awake during science classes.

“The most exciting development of the day may happen anywhere in any field: students may suddenly want to talk about a discovery on Mars, a medical breakthrough or a natural disaster. On such days it would be a shame not to put the textbooks aside and to capitalize on that curiosity,” said editor of Science in School, Eleanor Hayes. 

The journal is one of the initiatives supported by the Commission to get children and young people more interested in science, engineering and technology studies, The ultimate objective is to form, attract and retain more scientists and researchers in Europe.

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