Network for Astronomy School Education
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| Abbreviation | NASE |
|---|---|
| Formation | 2009 |
President | Rosa Maria Ros |
Vice-President | Beatriz Garcia |
| Website | www |
Network for Astronomy School Education (NASE) is an International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group that works on Training Teachers for primary and secondary schools. In 2007, professor George K. Miley, IAU vice-president, invited Rosa M. Ros to begin exploring the idea of setting up an astronomy program to give primary and secondary school teachers a better preparation in this area of knowledge. The birth of NASE Group occurred when Rosa Maria Ros and Alexandre Costa were sent by UNESCO and IAU to give two courses in Peru and Ecuador in July 2009. Shortly after NASE was officially created on August 2009 during IAU's General Assembly at Rio de Janeiro. From there on more than 80 courses have been presented worldwide.
Objectives
The main objective of NASE is to prepare the next generation of teachers and perform changes on the teachers that are already in practice. NASE works with university professors in order to train future teachers and we cooperate with the departments of education in order to train experienced primary and secondary school teachers. The Working Group created a basic course for training teachers aiming at:
- teaching astronomy to teachers
- teaching teachers how to teach astronomy
At the same time, the Working Group works with University Professors to introduce them to new methods of teaching astronomy. The topics of “the basic NASE course” are:
- Positional astronomy
- Solar system
- Exoplanets
- Spectrography
- Photometry
- Spectroscopy
- Determination of absolute magnitude
- Stellar nucleosynthesis
- Stellar evolution
- Cosmology
NASE classes were designed for developing countries where teachers don't have many financial resources. NASE Working Group members go to these countries for the first time to prepare a local task group that will disseminate astronomy knowledge and inexpensive didactic materials. The main goal is precisely to set up in each country a local group of NASE members who carry on teaching the essential NASE course[1] every year and to create new didactic inexpensive experiments, demonstrations and astronomical instruments. This has allowed to build a very large repository of educational materials for astronomy with PowerPoint Presentations[2]],animations, articles and lectures,[3] photos, games, simulations websites,[4] interactive programs(e.g Stellarium [5]) and videos.
NASE Courses
NASE has now given more than seventy courses mainly in South America, Africa and Asia.
| Meeting | Venue | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lima (Peru) | July 17–20, 2009 |
| 2 | Salinas (Ecuador) | July 18–21, 2009 |
| 3 | Barranquilla (Colombia) | July 6–9, 2010 |
| 4 | Managua (Nicaragua) | July 12–15, 2010 |
| 5 | Lima (Peru) | July 17–20, 2010 |
| 6 | Rosario (Argentina) | October 12–15, 2010 |
| 7 | Cañada de Gómez (Argentina) | October 13–15, 2010 |
| 8 | Venado Tuerto (Argentina) | May 26–28, 2011 |
| 9 | Rafaela (Argentina) | June 22–25, 2011 |
| 10 | Tegucigalpa (Honduras) | July 11–14, 2011 |
| 11 | Managua (Nicaragua) | July 11–14, 2011 |
| 12 | Panamá (Panamá) | July 18–22, 2011 |
| 13 | Barranquilla (Colombia) | July 21–24, 2011 |
| 14 | Asunción (Paraguay) | July 27–30, 2011 |
| 15 | Reconquista (Argentina) | November 2–5, 2011 |
| 16 | Lima (Peru) | January 18–21, 2012 |
| 17 | Managua (Nicaragua) | July 2–6, 2012 |
| 18 | Tegucigalpa (Honduras) | July 9–12, 2012 |
| 19 | Guatemala (Guatemala) | July 10–13, 2012 |
| 20 | Quito (Ecuador) | October 23–26, 2012 |
| 21 | La Paz (Bolivia) | October 29- November 1, 2012 |
| 22 | Barranquilla (Colombia) | November 14–16, 2012 |
| 23 | Santa Fe (Argentina) | November 19–21, 2012 |
| 24 | Asunción (Paraguay) | November 21–24, 2012 |
| 25 | Montevideo (Uruguay) | November 26–29, 2012 |
| 26 | Accra (Ghana) | January 8–11, 2013 |
| 27 | Cañada de Gómez (Argentina) | March 12–15, 2013 |
| 28 | Mendoza (Argentina) | March 18–20, 2013 |
| 29 | Cochabamba (Bolivia) | July 16–18, 2013 |
| 30 | Uberlandia (Brasil) | July 29- August 1, 2013 |
| 31 | Foz do Iguaçu (Brasil) | August 5–8, 2013 |
| 32 | Bauru (Brasil) | August 12–15, 2013 |
| 33 | Managua (Nicaragua) | August 5–7, 2013 |
| 34 | Beijing (China) | August 19–21, 2013 |
| 35 | Medellín (Colombia) | September 2–5, 2013 |
| 36 | Bogota (Colombia) | September 2–5, 2013 |
| 37 | Quito (Ecuador) | September 23–26, 2013 |
| 38 | Barranquilla (Colombia) | October 8–10, 2013 |
| 39 | Nairobi (Kenya) | October 24–26, 2013 |
| 40 | Tegucigalpa (Honduras) | November 4–7, 2013 |
| 41 | Guatemala (Guatemala) | November 11–13, 2013 |
| 42 | San Luis Potosí (México) | November 19–22, 2013 |
| 43 | Montevideo (Uruguay) | December 2–5, 2013 |
| 44 | Huancayo (Peru) | March 17–20, 2014 |
| 45 | Ica (Peru) | March 24–27, 2014 |
| 46 | Mendoza (Argentina) | April 24–26, 2014 |
| 47 | Cluj (Romania) | April 24–26, 2014 |
| 48 | La Habana (Cuba) | June 9–12, 2014 |
| 49 | Bogotá (Colombia) | June 16–19, 2014 |
| 50 | Quito (Ecuador) | June 16–19, 2014 |
| 51 | Medellín (Colombia) | June 25–28, 2014 |
| 52 | Accra (Ghana) | July 28–31, 2014 |
| 53 | Asunción (Paraguay) | July 30 - August 1, 2014 |
| 54 | Barranquilla (Colombia) | July 31 - August 1, 2014 |
| 55 | Salta (Argentina) | August 12–14, 2014 |
| 56 | Tegucigalpa (Honduras) | October 23–24, 2014 |
| 57 | Cochabamba (Bolivia) | October 27–28, 2014 |
| 58 | Guatemala (Guatemala) | November 3–5, 2014 |
| 59 | Oruro (Bolivia) | November 4–7, 2014 |
| 60 | Managua (Nicaragua) | December 10–12, 2014 |
| 61 | Lima (Peru) | February 9–13, 2015 |
| 62 | Barranquilla (Colombia) | March 19–21, 2015 |
| 63 | Tucuman (Argentina) | March 25–27, 2015 |
| 64 | Cuenca (Ecuador) | March 25–27, 2015 |
| 65 | Jujuy (Argentina) | May 11–13, 2015 |
| 66 | Medellín (Colombia) | June 24–27, 2015 |
| 67 | Guatemala (Guatemala) | June 25–27, 2015 |
| 68 | Managua (Nicaragua) | July 13–15, 2015 |
| 69 | Honolulu (Hawaii) | August 1–2, 2015 |
| 70 | Tegucigalpa (Honduras) | August 24–27, 2015 |
| 71 | Bogota (Colombia) | October 5–7, 2015 |
| 72 | Bucaramanga (Colombia) | October 11–14, 2015 |
Partnership Courses
NASE has also cooperated with other associations to promote teacher training on astronomy, namely with UNESCO and the European Association for Astronomy Education-EAAE.
See also
References
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