The 11th Conference of the European Researchers in Didactics of Biology (ERIDOB 2016) took place in Karlstad, Sweden between September 5th to September 9th, 2016. The ERIDOB conference serves as an important milestone in the European biology education community, providing biology educators and biology education researchers with the opportunity to present their work and learn from biology education efforts around Europe.

PARRISE was well represented at the ERIDOB 2016 conference, through oral and poster paper presentations, as well as a symposium presentation.

The symposium entitled “Socio-scientific based inquiry in the context of biology teaching” was organized and chaired by the workpage leader of WP1 of the PARRISE project, Dr. Ralph Levinson (UCL Institute of Education). The symposium focused on the experiences of five PARRISE partners (UCL Institute of Education, University of Southampton, Utrecht University, Ecole Nationale de Formation Agronomique, University of Montpellier) with the Socio-Scientific Inquiry-Based learning (SSIBL) pedagogical framework. In particular, the presentations of the symposium aimed at introducing  and distinguishing the SSIBL framework from the classical inquiry-based learning method, as well as at discussing the experiences and challenges of science teachers when employing the framework.

The following presentations were given at the ERIDOB 2016 conference.

Symposium

Levinson, R. (2016). Toward socio-scientific inquiry-based learning.  [Paper 1]

Knippels, M.C., Verhoeff, R., & Postma, P.  (2016). Socio-scientific inquiry in pre-service education: Challenges and opportunities. [Paper 2]

Christodoulou, A., Amos, R.,  & Grace, M.  (2016). Pre-service teachers’ experiences of learning to teach biology through a Socio-Scientific Inquiry-Based Learning (SSIBL) approach. [Paper 3]

Nedelec, L., Molinatti, G., Simonneaux, J., Simonneaux, L., Herve, N., & Lipp, A. (2016). The devices of the “démarche d’enquête”: The example of the cartography of controversy.  [Paper 4]

Individual oral presentation

Rundgren, C.J., Eriksson, M., &  Chang

Rundgren, S.N., & (2016). The interrelationship of value and knowledge in students’ socio-scientific inquiry-based learning.

Poster

Chang Rundgren, S.N., & Rundgren, C.J.  (2016). Pre-service teachers’ awareness on the teaching strategies involving socioscientific issues, inquiry-based science education to enhance socio-scientific inquiry-based learning.