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The European Experience of Educational Seismology

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This chapter provides an overview of the last two decades’ European experiences in educational seismology and describes the different contexts in which they have been developed. The basic idea of these educational projects is that seismology may represent an efficient communication vehicle for teaching a wide range of basic earth science topics through laboratory practices and educational activities. Moreover, it is also an effective tool to raise in the young citizens the awareness on the earthquake risk and possible mitigation actions. In this frame, several seismic stations with different technologies were installed in schools across Europe. The scientific support of researchers and the need to establish strong links between teachers and researchers attribute to the school an active role in the knowledge process using the scientific laboratory practice by adopting the ‘learning by doing’ modern approach of science communication (R. Schank C. Cleary, 1995). Some educational activities correlated with seismological projects are presented, following different strategies depending on the country, but all aimed at building a new way to communicate science in the schools. The new vogue is the opening towards social media and blogs. This generalises the concept of an educational Geoscience website making it an e-platform for science communication and multimedia data sharing, where researchers, teachers, students and education operators can interact and constantly be kept informed of ongoing activities and relevant events.
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hal-02196076 , version 1 (26-07-2019)

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A. Zollo, A. Bobbio, Jean-Luc Berenguer, Françoise Courboulex, P. Denton, et al.. The European Experience of Educational Seismology. Geoscience Research and Outreach, pp.145-170, 2014, ⟨10.1007/978-94-007-6943-4_10⟩. ⟨hal-02196076⟩
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