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2.1 Creative Inquiry Based Science Education

The CASE project attempts to combine the Inquiry Based Science Education framework with creative
learning approaches and arts in order to succeed fruitful and effective learning in primary education.
There is a current demand for instructional material and teaching methods in order to support the
development of cognitive, meta-cognitive, social and emotional skills both for the classroom and for
teacher training. Therefore, the target skills developed in schools and teacher-training courses need
to be reassessed, as also the ways in which students are expected to learn and teachers’ to be trained
(Seroglou 2006). When teaching science, learners’ motivation is always a challenge: How to motivate
students, and in-service teachers, to develop active interest in abstract and complex “theoretical”
issues.

Figure 3: Inquiry Based Science Education Circle in CASE project

CASE has been funded within the framework of the European 14
Union Erasmus+ programme