The Association of Teachers and Researchers in the Sciences Education believes that the prospect of integrating the NPRI ENS effective January 1, 2011 may call into question some of the social scientists and insured usually through the NPRI functions deemed absolutely necessary by representatives of research community and training involved.
This challenge would be quite detrimental to all actors who, directly or indirectly, interested in education. The NPRI provides indeed now a meeting place for cross skills and promote their mutual enrichment by promoting meetings between professional and research community by supporting both ambitious research programs and training opportunities with highly articulated needs of the field.
added that one of the specificities of the NPRI is also potentially provide an interface and a means for communicating between the major French research community in education circles and European and international research in education.
If the merger of the NPRI ENS led to a questioning of these basic functions, it would, we believe, significant damage to both:
-for teachers who find TODAY 'hui in the work conducted by the NPRI, they are research or training seminars, resources and frameworks to examine and to evolve their business practices in everyday life;
-for researchers in science education who have the opportunity to deploy a network investigation and report regularly on the initiative of the NPRI, the result of their research to representatives from industry, thereby promoting more effective communication between the research community and professional circles;
-makers to, finally, that there are investigations and observations valuable educational practices.
For all these reasons, the AECS therefore hope that the merger is accompanied by reflection and consultation to ensure the maintenance in the future of these unique scientific and social functions performed today by the NPRI in the French research landscape and more broadly internationally.
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15/11/2010 On behalf of the AECS,
Its co-chairs Patricia
Champy-Remoussenard and Richard Wittorski
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