Shaw-IAU Workshop on Astronomy for Education

The 3rd Shaw–IAU Workshop on Astronomy for Education will take place on 12–15 October 2021. Owing to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop will be fully virtual.

 

This year’s topic is What everybody should know about Astronomy Education. What are the things that, in an ideal world, all of us who are active in astronomy education should know — about teaching methods, about ways to make our events and resources equitable, about evaluation techniques, about astronomy education research?

For participants who are new(-ish) to astronomy education, the workshop will provide a unique opportunity to familiarise themselves with many different aspects of the field in one go — and for the rest of us, it’s an opportunity to both revisit the basics and learn new things. 

The target audience for this workshop includes astronomers, teachers, educators, education researchers active in astronomy education, and anybody else who is active in astronomy education, or is planning to be. 

 

The event is being organised by the IAU Office of Astronomy for Education (OAE), with generous funding from the Shaw Prize Foundation.