RESEARCH OF NEW FORmS OF COmPETITIONS IN FOSTERINg THE CREATIVITy OF yOUTH
Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2008, Vol 6, Issue 5
Abstract
People working in basic science are rightly concerned about a potential decline in the number of physics students. At the Faculty of Science, Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic, we have prepared a project entitled „Research of new forms of competitions in fostering the creativity of the youth aimed at motivating them to study science, especially physics, mathematics and chemistry“. Some of the research activities will be discussed in this paper, namely the competitions Fermi Questions and The Young Inventor. The basic question of our research is the effciency of this activities for the motivation of students to study physics and techniques. It will be shown that only a small number of students were interested in these competitions. The Fermi Questions competition was organized as an international one in cooperation with secondary and high school teachers in Germany in 2008. The results are the same as in the Czech Republic. The competition The Young Inventor was successful – the presented papers and the convention had shown a good quality of students´ knowledge, some of them cooperate with industrial enterprises and intend to study physics.
Authors and Affiliations
Renata Holubová
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP34536
- DOI -
- Views 387
- Downloads 0
CHILDREN`S SOCIAL DEVELOPmENT IN PRESCHOOL AND AT THE END OF THIRD gRADE
The present paper1 deals with social skills of Estonian preschool and primary school children. The aim is to analyze how teachers evaluate students` social development and what substantial differences occur in the leve...
BLENDING OF OLD AND NEW APPROACHES IN GEOGRAPHICAL EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY
Field work often takes place in the countryside and the city environment is neglected, although we usually move there more often. Natural science education should, however, include not only the evaluation of the rural la...
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOB SATISFACTION, DEMOGRAPHIC AND SCHOOL CHARACTERISTICS AMONG BASIC EDUCATION TEACHERS IN ALBANIA
The purpose of this descriptive-correlation study was to describe the overall level of job satisfaction, also relationships among job satisfaction, demographic characteristics and school characteristics for teachers in t...
EDUCATION, EMPLOYABILITY AND LABOUR FORCE COMPETITIVENESS IN CROATIA
Employability and labour force competitiveness are important parts of an economy’s overall competitiveness. The key role of knowledge as a structural part of the competence in stimulating economic growth has been widely...
ABOUT INTERNET’S POTENTIALITY IN THE FOREING LANGUAGE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS
These days the mastery of the Internet or at last the proper know-how needed for this sort of work is regarded among the same basic skills of civilized person as an ability for reading or writing. The necessity of develo...