International body to open centre to streamline school-level astronomy education in India
The focus of the work carried out in this new centre will be on astronomy teaching methods and tools of assessment for middle-and high-school students and teachers, along with language inclusivity.
The OAE Centre India will be managed by the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune,(Representational/Source: Max Planck Institute for Astronomy) To strengthen efforts to support astronomy education worldwide, the International Astronomical Union has announced the founding of four new centres in its global network of the Office of Astronomy for Education (OAE). The OAE Centre India will be managed by the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, an autonomous institution under the University Grants Commission, in association with the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
The focus of the work carried out in this new centre will be on astronomy teaching methods and tools of assessment for middle-and high-school students and teachers, along with language inclusivity. “Although the astronomy community has collectively created a large number of education resources in the last few years, there is a need for standardised tools and protocols to assess the quality and impact value of these resources, as well as those of the teacher training programmes that are currently conducted,” said Somak Raychaudhury, director of IUCAA
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