Read about the presentation of Amgen Teach on "How to promote health by facilitating scientific reasoning, critical thinking and engagement skills" at the 12th Science Projects Workshop in the Future Classroom Lab.

1. Developed by:
With the collaboration of: Originally funded by :
How to promote health by facilitating
scientific reasoning, critical thinking
and engagement skills

2. UDR-Bio: Unit of Public Engagement on Health Research
Educational programmes
• Community Advisory Board
• Responsible Research & Innovation (RRI)
• Community Based Participatory Research
Science Communication
Public Engagement

3. What is my opinion?? Do I need research to decide??
WHY?
VACCINES
Yes or Not?

4. XXI century: changing world with big innovations

5. 7/18/2016
Inclusive and
secure societies
XXI century: Big societal challenges
climate change
healthy ageing
clean energy
Global poverty
Interaction of all actors and responsible citizens

6. Current relationship between science and society
Science and Innovation
system

7. Science & society
Science and Innovation
system
Outreach and info: focusing on understanding

8. DEFICIT MODEL

9. ?
NEED FOR A TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE
SCIENCE AND INNOVATION
SYSTEM

10. The educational community should collaborate with:
society, researchers, policy makers and industry.
Europe needs empowered citizens with the necessary knowledge and skills
(scientific reasoning, critical thinking and engagement) to be able to
participate in the R&I system!
Responsible Research & Innovation
Science and Innovation
system

11. HOW?

12. Facilitate decision making
based on scientific evidence
Invite students to behave
as responsible citizens
Empower students
to participate in R&I
Educational programme for
health promotion
Aims:

13. Focusing on real life
challenges linked to
current research
IBSE, cooperative learning
& formative evaluation
innovation
Reflection around ELSA
(ethical, legal and social
aspects) + on scientific
inquirí and Research
integrity*
Facilitating knowledge
(scientific literacy) and skills
(i.e. scientific inquiry, critical
thinking and engagement)
Collaboration among
different social actors
*limitations, uncertanties, problem definition…
How? By promoting innovation in STEM education:

14. 8 Modules on different health topics
Multilingual portal
Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Polish
Aimed at secondary students
(15-18)
Each module includes:
1. Multimedia tools
2. Tools for reflection
3. Protocols of experiments
4. Lesson plans

15. Reflect on ethical, legal and social aspects:
Decide and debate!
Hands on:
Experiments linked to current research
Lesson plans:
Real life challenges
+ IBSE
+ Collaboration with
stakholders
+ ELSA
+ Critical analysis
+ Action
Multimedia resources:
play, watch and experiment!
Resources in each thematic module:

16. Clusters in different cities in Spain:
In museums and research centers :
Each cluster offers:
– Workshops of
experiments
– Training for teachers
– Network of Pilot Schools
Madrid
+ 25.000
participants in face to
face activities / year
through clusters

17. Analytics
Over 8.000 visits per month
93.000 visitors in 2015
Website
+ 2100
followers on
Twitter
+8600
Fans in Facebook
Visits

18. Aims:
Educational innovation
+
Promoting interaction between science and society
How?
Inclusive education, in collaboration with the different stakeholders and where students can participate in
decision making on issues related to science and research processes
Workshop:
Analysis types of interaction between different actors in Xplore Health’s
lesson plans (10’)
-> Green cards with type of interaction and actors involved
Presentation of models of interaction (5’)
How could we improve the promotion of health and the relationship
between science and society in secondary schools?

19. Looking for solutions to real
problems through reserach
Reserach topics linked to
socio-scientific
controversies: homeopathy,
vaccinations, etc.
Doing and intervention!
Promoting competency-
based learning and
engagement skills
Using multimedia resources of
Xplore Health in classrooms to get
scientific literacy
How could we improve the promotion of health and the relationship
between science and society in secondary schools?

20. Extra aims for Xplore Health:
Empower students to contribute to
bring solutions to societal challenges
Facilitate students to develop R&I with different actors
& aligned with their needs and expectations
Engage 2020 Project, EC
Decision making
+
Do research

21. Focusing on real life
challenges linked to
current research
IBSE, cooperative
learning & formative
evaluation
Reflection around ELSA
(ethical, legal and social
aspects) + on scientific
inquirí and Research
integrity*
Facilitating knowledge and
skills (i.e. scientific inquiry,
critical thinking and
engagement)
Collaboration among
different social actors
Participation in
Community Based
Research projects and in
R&I decision making
How? By promoting innovation in STEM education:
*limitations, uncertanties, problema definition…

22. We needed more innovation!
The problems that we want to solve
are not linked to the system that should provide
solutions
Organisations ofering
educational interventions
Seconadry
schools
Researchers and health
professionals
Society

23. Change: integrative model!
Secondary schools
Organizations
offering
educational
interventions
Reserachers and
health professionals
Society

24. Promoting participation in community
based research & science shops

25. Healthy Minds
Promoting mental
health for young
people with young
people

26. What is the health issue that students consider more
necessary to work on?
What are the needs of students within this issue?
Emotional Well-being
1,000 Students
choose topic &
co-develop the
collective needs
agenda

27. Participants
+ 4 Universities and research centres
+ 15 Secondary schools & 500 students

28. RRI: Community Based Participatory Research
Students choose
topic & co-develop
the research &
intervention
1. Selection of
the topic by
students
2. Collective
agenda of
interests
3. Contact with
Reserachers
and CSOs
4. Participatory
Research
5. Collective
action:
decalogue of
suggestions
and intervention
in educational
centres
6. Results
presentation in
a congress
Methods for deliberation:

29. Co-definition of the reserach questions and the methodology

30. Co-execution of the research projects and final collective product:
Decalogue of recommendations
• Acces to knowledge and
research
• Physical and virtual
environments
• Legislation and regulation
• Values, classroom climate,
relationship with teachers
• Interaction with health
professionals
Analyses of
the system:

31. Outcomes
1- Training on skills for the XXI century
2- An R&I system that responds better to students’ needs
3- Recommendations to different actors improving the system
(also beyond of the secondary school) – real product/impact
4- Empowered citizens prepared to solve problems in the
knowledge society with an innovative methodology (integrative
model based on research)
5- Citizens who support research
6-…

32. New interactions
• Agenda setting, more aligned with their needs
• Participatory research
• Direct contact with scientists
• Participatory governance
• Meaningful communication with politicians and
experts of the health system
• Communication of results to their school boards to
improve their local context

33. Workshop:
Exchange of experiences: (10’)
-Explain other projects involving different stakeholders where you have
participated. How was it? Which kind of interaction between the educational
community and other stakeholders took place there? Which were the benefits and
drawbacks of the experience?
New interactions

34. “Tell me, and I will forget
Show me, and I may remember
Involve me, and I will understand”
Confucius 450 BC

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