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Iscaro, Valentina; Castaldi, Laura; Sepe, Enrica – Industry and Higher Education, 2017
With a view to enhancing the entrepreneurial activity of universities, the authors explore the concepts and features of the "experimental lab", presenting it as an effective means of supporting entrepreneurial training programmes and helping students to turn ideas into actual start-ups. In this context, the term experimental lab refers…
Descriptors: Laboratory Experiments, Entrepreneurship, Training, Simulation
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Tasquier, Giulia; Pongiglione, Francesca – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
Climate change is one of the significant global challenges currently facing humanity. Even though its seriousness seems to be common knowledge among the public, the reaction of individuals to it has been slow and uncertain. Many studies assert that simply knowing about climate change is not enough to generate people's behavioural response. They…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Climate, Influences, Secondary School Students
Mariotti, Maria Alessandra; Laborde, Colette; Falcade, Rossana – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
Assuming that dynamic features of Dynamic Geometry Software may provide a basic representation of both variation and functional dependency, and taking Vygotskian perspective of semiotic mediation, a teaching experiment has been designed with the aim of introducing pupils to the idea of function. First data coming from the observations in Italian…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Experiments