Improving the Quality of Biology Didactics and their Role in Teacher Education

Department 58 – International Relations

Published 21-9-2017

Project
Region	South Bohemian Region
Title of the Programme	CZ07 - Scholarship Programme
Title of the Project	Improving the Quality of Biology Didactics and their Role in Teacher Education
Project Website	https://www.pf.jcu.cz/international_relations/nf_improving_of_the_quality_of_biology_didactics.php
Number of the Project	NF-CZ07-MOP-3-170-2015
Project Promoter	University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
Name of Norwegian Partner(s)	Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Objective of the Project	This project was aimed on improving the quality of teacher education via the exchange of experience within the domain of biology didactics and comparing educational approaches in the Czech Republic and Norway. The project was implemented through mobility i.e. short (one-week) educational stays by four Czech teacher educators in Norway (NTNU) and a short stay of one university teacher from Norway in the Czech Republic (The University of South Bohemia). The collaboration was based on previous contact within the framework of the European S-TEAM project aimed at the implementation of inquiry principles in education. This project helped to tackle the main problems in biology education that are reflected in biology didactics e.g. a lack of interest in science (biology), lots of information in individual biology branches, the use of inquiry principles, etc.
Approved grant	291 230 CZK / 10 990 EUR
Project Duration	Start date: 25.02.2016, End date: 31.07. 2016