To date, we have organised seven workshops,\u00a0the first hosted at the Southampton Education School in January 2014 where issues focusing on the theoretical framework for analysing and communicating socio-scientific issues were discussed.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Research team during Toulouse Workshop, ENFA<\/p><\/div>\n
The second workshop took place in July 2014 and was hosted \u00a0by Professors\u00a0Laurence Simonneaux, Jean Simonneaux and their research team at the Ecole Nationale de Formation Agronomique, France.\u00a0During this\u00a0time each time presented their progress to date, we focused on developing further our theoretical framework including the exploration of ethical frameworks \u00a0and building cartographies for exploring controversial issues and finally, we learnt more about the issue of ‘wolves as pest animals’ in France.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The CASSIS team at the University of Auckland, Jan 2015<\/p><\/div>\n
\u00a0Our third workshop took place in Auckland, NZ during January 2015 and was hosted by Bev France and her research team at the University of Auckland.\u00a0During this workshop,the team has discussed and developed a list of methodologies for collecting data of students’ perceptions of nature, risk and the three socio-scientific issues we are focusing on. Part of this work and the work conducted during the second workshop was presented by Dr Bev France and Dr Sally Birdsall at the 46th Australasian Science Education Research Association (ASERA) conference at the University of Western Australia in July 2015. During this time, we have also organised\u00a0and submitted\u00a0a symposium on the issues explored entitled Building a cartography about a SocioScientific Issue (SSI)\/Socially Acute Question(SAQ),<\/em>\u00a0which was successfully accepted and presented\u00a0at the ESERA 2015 conference, in Helsinki, Finland.<\/p>\n The CASSIS team in London January 2016, UCL-IOE<\/p><\/div>\n In January 2016, Dr Ralph Levinson, Dr Paul Davies, and Joanne Nicholl hosted the fifth CASSIS workshop at UCL Institute of Education. The team spent time reporting on the analysis and findings of a common methodology applied in each of our three contexts for exploring students\u2019 views of nature and pest animals. Part of this work was also later reported by Prof Laurence Simonneaux and Prof Jean Simonneaux at the 11th Conference of European Researchers in Didactics of Biology (ERIDOB) in Karlstad, Sweden in September 2016. The University of Auckland team presented the work conducted as part of their local project \u2018PEST \u2013 People Engaging with Science and Technology\u2019 funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment, NZ under the Unlocking Curious Minds scheme. The doctoral researchers in our team also presented their work to date on their projects and received feedback and discussed ideas with the other project members. Finally, we had the opportunity to share and discuss theoretical and practical implications of our work with invited speakers\u00a0Dr Jerry Ravetz and Sun-Kyung Lee, Cheongju National University of Education, South Korea.<\/p>\n CASSIS team at University of Auckland, January 2017<\/p><\/div>\n The 7th workshop for our project took place at the University of Auckland, NZ throughout January 2017. During this workshop we had the opportunity to work across national teams in developing analytical frameworks for the data collected during the implementation of the common communication model for \u2018pest\u2019 animal controversies, which we previously developed. The outcomes of this implementation and analysis resulted in a symposium (consisting of four proposed papers) submitted for the ESERA conference in Dublin, Ireland in August 2017. Another important outcome was the successful organisation led by Dr Bev France of a one-day international conference entitled Teaching contentious issues in science: a research-informed pedagogy, <\/em>where we had the opportunity to present theoretical and pedagogical dimensions of our work, and current findings. \u00a0The conference was well attended by researchers from the formal and informal education community. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Partners<\/strong><\/p>\n Communication About SocioScientific Issues (CASSIS) is a 4-year EU-funded project under the International Research Staff Exchange Scheme, which aims to improve communication about socioscientific issues (SSIs) between people with opposing views, to help them to develop collaborative reflections and to improve their reasoning when integrating wider perspectives.\u00a0The partner institutions are the University of Southampton and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93214,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-563","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/563\/revisions\/1317"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}In July 2015, Prof Marcus Grace and Dr Andri Christodoulou\u00a0hosted the forth workshop of our project at the University of Southampton. This\u00a0workshop focused on data analysis frameworks that could be applied to make sense of students’ emerging views of the nature of the controversies in each of the three contexts we are investigating. We have also discussed how pedagogical communicative strategies could be applied based on work conducted in each of the three countries.\u00a0Finally, a presentation given by Prof Nick Sotherton from the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, provided important insights to the issue of the badger cull in the UK.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>The sixth workshop of our project took place in July 2016 and was hosted by Prof Laurence Simonneaux, Prof Jean Simonneaux, Lucas \u00a0Nedelec and Dr Michel Vidal at the Ecole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure de Formation de l\u2019Enseignement Agricole, in Toulouse, France. The main focus of our work during this time was the sharing and discussion of the first implementation in our three contexts of a protocol for promoting communication about socio-scientific issues around pest animals. This resulted in a common communication model for \u2018pest\u2019 animal controversies, which we then implemented in international exchanges between England, France and New Zealand students. Our communication model includes pedagogical and communicative strategies such as mapping controversies and online asynchronous communication between students from the three countries. Part of this work entitled \u2018Communicating about socio-scientific issues: UK students\u2019 mapping of the badger-cattle controversy\u2019 will be presented by Dr Andri Christodoulou and Dr Ralph Levinson at the Annual International NARST conference in San Antonio, TX, USA in April 2017. Finally, invited speaker Laurent Hazard, Directeur de Recherche, INRA, Toulouse, gave a presentation with the title \u2018Reflecting on genetics in action \u2013 how to match knowledge production and design?\u2019 and discussed with the team his reflections on our project\u2019s aims and implications.<\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0For more information about our activities read the first issue of our CASSIS newsletter<\/a><\/span>\u00a0or contact us for copies of our working papers and conference presentations.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
1. University of Southampton:\u00a0Prof Marcus Grace<\/a>,\u00a0Dr Andri Christodoulou<\/a>, Willeke Rietdijk<\/a><\/h3>\n
2. Ecole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure de Formation de l\u2019Enseignement Agricole:\u00a0Prof Laurence Simonneaux<\/a>, Prof\u00a0Jean Simonnneaux<\/a>, Am\u00e9lie Lipp<\/a>, Michel Vidal, Lucas Nedelec<\/a><\/h3>\n
3. UCL Institute of Education, University College London:\u00a0Dr Ralph Levinson<\/a>, Joanne Nicholl<\/a><\/h3>\n
4. University of Auckland:\u00a0Associate Professor\u00a0Bev France<\/a>, Dr\u00a0Sally Birdsall<\/a>, Kathryn Garthwaite,\u00a0Brent Wagner<\/a>,\u00a0Katie Gormley<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"