Attracting Pupils and Students to Natural Sciences: Challenges in Higher Education on the Example of Science Learning Centre Bioskop Masaryk University (Brno, the Czech Republic)
Journal Title: Journal of Education Culture and Society - Year 2016, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
Many universities in the Czech Republic lack students´ interest in the studies of natural science. That is why all the universities have to come up with an idea how to popularize these scientific fields to attract potential university applicants. One of the ways of achieving that is to create educational centers, which are able, thanks to these programes, to approach students of primary and secondary schools and show them the natural sciences. The presented example of one particular educational center (Bioskop Masaryk University, Brno, the Czech Republic) evaluates the success rate of their activities while using written questionnaire survey among the visitors of the programes (students of primary and secondary schools as well as their pedagogues). The results have shown that thanks to these activities the center created quality conditions for popularization of natural sciences. The results have also proven the center´s ability to present natural sciences in an attractive and entertaining way to students of elementary and secondary schools. These students expressed their interest in the study of natural sciences and they would like to visit the center again.
Authors and Affiliations
Ondřej Konečný, Alena Podhorná, Tereza Hlaváčková, Petr Novák
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