35th Annual Report (2022-2023) - ENGLISH

98 ASTRONOMY CENTRE FOR EDUCATORS Refresher Course on Astronomy and Astrophysics The Refresher Course on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2022 was organized online along with th the IUCAA Summer School on Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSAA) fromthe 16 of May to the th 17 of June. The ISSAA was coordinated by Debarati Chatterjee. This was overseen by the Astronomy Centre for Educators. Teaching Learning Centre and National Resource Centre Seminars on Education The Astronomy Centre for Educators started a new seminar series titled “Seminars on Education” to discuss a wide variety of topics related to education with some emphasis on science and astronomy education. Topics will include but not limited to the conceptual aspects of the discipline, teaching-learning or pedagogic processes, philosophy and sociology of science teaching, theoretical questions related to the nature and development of science and education, core issues of access, equity, and financing of education, to name a few. The first talk in this series was delivered by Professor Arvind Kumar, former Centre Director of the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), a National Centre of Tata Institute of Fundamental th Research, on the 30 of April. He spoke on the theme of “Reasoning and explanation in science: a pedagogical perspective”. He discussed the kinds of reasoning, some of which are acceptable in modern science while others are not, with special reference to physics. The pictures show the poster and a section of the audience. Professor Padma M. Sarangapani, Chairperson, Centre for Excellence in Teacher Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, delivered the second talk in this series titled “Ideas that matter: some key imperatives and insights that have changed the way we think about learning th and teaching” on the 11 of June. She spoke on pedagogical content knowledge (PCK), the idea of the active learner and the right to education. The pictures show the poster and Professor Sarangapani delivering her talk.