25 participants from 15 countries were keen enough to sacrifice half their weekend to take part in the Universe Awareness workshop last Saturday. We heard some inspiring UNAWE presentations at the special session on Astronomy Education and Development at the International Astronomical Union General Assembly. This complementary one-day workshop showed that a single special session was just the tip of the iceberg of UNAWE programmes.
We heard from both Rosa M. Ros in Spain and Cecilia Scorza in Germany where UNAWE has a few years experience already, as well as from other places where the programme recently started.
Discussed topics were diverse:
- Communicating modern astronomy in contexts where local knowledge systems and cosmologies are very much part of life,
- What to do with the famous UNAWE Earthball, and
- How to bring in a new programme into countries where curriculum requirements are very tight and teachers have little room for improvisation and innovation.
The presentations will be made available here on the UNAWE website in the next few days.
We encourage everyone who has an interest in astronomy for young children to get in touch and join our international network.
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