Network for Astronomy School Education
AbbreviationNASE
Formation2009
President
Rosa Maria Ros
Vice-President
Beatriz Garcia
Websitewww.iau.org/science/scientific_bodies/working_groups/259/

Network for Astronomy School Education (NASE) is an International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group that works on Training Teachers for primary and secondary schools. In 2007, professor George K. Miley, IAU vice-president, invited Rosa M. Ros to begin exploring the idea of setting up an astronomy program to give primary and secondary school teachers a better preparation in this area of knowledge. The birth of NASE Group occurred when Rosa Maria Ros and Alexandre Costa were sent by UNESCO and IAU to give two courses in Peru and Ecuador in July 2009. Shortly after NASE was officially created on August 2009 during IAU's General Assembly at Rio de Janeiro. From there on more than 80 courses have been presented worldwide.

The topics of "the basic NASE course" are:

NASE classes were designed for developing countries where teachers don't have many financial resources. NASE Working Group members go to these countries for the first time to prepare a local task group that will disseminate astronomy knowledge and inexpensive didactic materials. The main goal is precisely to set up in each country a local group of NASE members who carry on teaching the essential NASE course[1] every year and to create new didactic inexpensive experiments, demonstrations and astronomical instruments. This has allowed to build a very large repository of educational materials for astronomy with PowerPoint Presentations[2]], animations, articles and lectures,[3] photos, games, simulations websites,[4] interactive programs(e.g. Stellarium[5]) and videos.

NASE Courses

NASE has now given more than seventy courses mainly in South America, Africa and Asia.

Meeting Venue Dates
1 Lima (Peru) 17–20 July 2009
2 Salinas (Ecuador) 18–21 July 2009
3 Barranquilla (Colombia) 6–9 July 2010
4 Managua (Nicaragua) 12–15 July 2010
5 Lima (Peru) 17–20 July 2010
6 Rosario (Argentina) 12–15 October 2010
7 Cañada de Gómez (Argentina) 13–15 October 2010
8 Venado Tuerto (Argentina) 26–28 May 2011
9 Rafaela (Argentina) 22–25 June 2011
10 Tegucigalpa (Honduras) 11–14 July 2011
11 Managua (Nicaragua) 11–14 July 2011
12 Panamá (Panamá) 18–22 July 2011
13 Barranquilla (Colombia) 21–24 July 2011
14 Asunción (Paraguay) 27–30 July 2011
15 Reconquista (Argentina) 2–5 November 2011
16 Lima (Peru) 18–21 January 2012
17 Managua (Nicaragua) 2–6 July 2012
18 Tegucigalpa (Honduras) 9–12 July 2012
19 Guatemala (Guatemala) 10–13 July 2012
20 Quito (Ecuador) 23–26 October 2012
21 La Paz (Bolivia) 29 October – 1 November 2012
22 Barranquilla (Colombia) 14–16 November 2012
23 Santa Fe (Argentina) 19–21 November 2012
24 Asunción (Paraguay) 21–24 November 2012
25 Montevideo (Uruguay) 26–29 November 2012
26 Accra (Ghana) 8–11 January 2013
27 Cañada de Gómez (Argentina) 12–15 March 2013
28 Mendoza (Argentina) 18–20 March 2013
29 Cochabamba (Bolivia) 16–18 July 2013
30 Uberlandia (Brasil) 29 July – 1 August 2013
31 Foz do Iguaçu (Brasil) 5–8 August 2013
32 Bauru (Brasil) 12–15 August 2013
33 Managua (Nicaragua) 5–7 August 2013
34 Beijing (China) 19–21 August 2013
35 Medellín (Colombia) 2–5 September 2013
36 Bogota (Colombia) 2–5 September 2013
37 Quito (Ecuador) 23–26 September 2013
38 Barranquilla (Colombia) 8–10 October 2013
39 Nairobi (Kenya) 24–26 October 2013
40 Tegucigalpa (Honduras) 4–7 November 2013
41 Guatemala (Guatemala) 11–13 November 2013
42 San Luis Potosí (México) 19–22 November 2013
43 Montevideo (Uruguay) 2–5 December 2013
44 Huancayo (Peru) 17–20 March 2014
45 Ica (Peru) 24–27 March 2014
46 Mendoza (Argentina) 24–26 April 2014
47 Cluj (Romania) 24–26 April 2014
48 La Habana (Cuba) 9–12 June 2014
49 Bogotá (Colombia) 16–19 June 2014
50 Quito (Ecuador) 16–19 June 2014
51 Medellín (Colombia) 25–28 June 2014
52 Accra (Ghana) 28–31 July 2014
53 Asunción (Paraguay) 30 July – 1 August 2014
54 Barranquilla (Colombia) 31 July – 1 August 2014
55 Salta (Argentina) 12–14 August 2014
56 Tegucigalpa (Honduras) 23–24 October 2014
57 Cochabamba (Bolivia) 27–28 October 2014
58 Guatemala (Guatemala) 3–5 November 2014
59 Oruro (Bolivia) 4–7 November 2014
60 Managua (Nicaragua) 10–12 December 2014
61 Lima (Peru) 9–13 February 2015
62 Barranquilla (Colombia) 19–21 March 2015
63 Tucuman (Argentina) 25–27 March 2015
64 Cuenca (Ecuador) 25–27 March 2015
65 Jujuy (Argentina) 11–13 May 2015
66 Medellín (Colombia) 24–27 June 2015
67 Guatemala (Guatemala) 25–27 June 2015
68 Managua (Nicaragua) 13–15 July 2015
69 Honolulu (Hawaii) 1–2 August 2015
70 Tegucigalpa (Honduras) 24–27 August 2015
71 Bogota (Colombia) 5–7 October 2015
72 Bucaramanga (Colombia) 11–14 October 2015

Partnership Courses

NASE has also cooperated with other associations to promote teacher training on astronomy, namely with UNESCO and the European Association for Astronomy Education-EAAE.

Meeting Venue Dates Partners
1 Madrid (Spain) 26 Nov – 1 Dec 2009 European Association for Astronomy Education-EAAE and Spanish National Research Council - CSIC.
2 Varna (Bulgaria) 1–5 September 2010 European Association for Astronomy Education-EAAE and Varna Astronomical Observatory and Planetarium.
3 Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) 14–15 December 2010 TAD (Teaching Astronomy for Development IAU Commission 46) and Université de Ouagadougou.
4 Cape Town (South Africa) 20 August 2011 OAD (Office for Astronomy Development IAU) and South African Astronomical Observatory
5 Beijing (China) 25 August 2012 Beijing Planetarium and IAU
6 Enontekiö (Finland) 28–30 December 2013 European Association for Astronomy Education - EAAE, LUMA and Helsinki University
7 San Luis Potosi (Mexico) 23 November 2013 Escuela de Estudios Superiores del Magisterio Potosino
8 London (United Kingdom) 20–24 July 2015 European Association for Astronomy Education-EAAE, Royal Astronomical Society and Greenwich Observatory

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Essential NASE Astronomy course for teachers" (PDF).
  2. ↑ "Astronomy PowerPoint Presentations".
  3. ↑ "Lectures about astronomy topics".
  4. ↑ "Simulations from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln".
  5. ↑ "Stellarium astronomical Software".


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