PROFILES - WP3: Stakeholders involvement and interaction. PROFILES Curricular Study on Science Education : Interim Report on the third round of the UL, Slovenia working group

The outcomes of this study will serve the development of innovative learning environments (WP4) and the preparation of continuous teacher training courses (WP5) “aiding the implementation and dissemination of PROFILES ideas, intentions and objectives to facilitate the uptake of innovative science teaching and the enhancement of scientific literacy” (PROFILES Consortium, 2010, p. 20). Promoting scientific literacy is only possible if the complexity of the scientific literacy construct is taken account of in content, method and conception. Therefore, the empirically identified aspects of desirable science education from round 1 were in the second part of round 2 considered in relation to content, method and conception