Leading team:
- Prof. Anat Yarden
- Dr. Eran Zafrani
Project team:
- This project is the outcome of the cooperation of four academic institutes in Israel: The Technion, Tel-Aviv University, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and The Weizmann Institute of Science.
- From the life sciences group in the Department of Science Teaching of The Weizmann Institute of Science, took part the following staff:
- Dr. Gilat Brill
- Dr. Karin Halevi
- Dr. Eran Zafrani
Secretariat and Administration:
Lioe SadeBrief
The Dialogus project is aimed at promoting dialogic learning and teaching among middle school students in Israel.
Dialogic learning occurs during participation in a complex academic discourse in which the students' ideas and thoughts are not only expressed, but also rely on the ideas and thoughts of their peers and the knowledge learned in the content area. In this way, learning becomes a cooperative and dialogic action in which the things said by individuals contribute to the understanding of the other and of the whole.
As part of the project, nine peak days were developed that present teaching tools and strategies to create opportunities for a rich dialog between students around scientific, mathematical or philosophical phenomena. Each peak day is a sequence of three lessons, in which the students prepare to make a decision or propose solutions on a controversial moral-social issue. At the end of the day, the topic is presented as a central question to be answered in an interdisciplinary activity that combines the students' insights from the three fields of knowledge.
Researchers and supervisors from four academic institutions in Israel participated in the development of the project, and so far it has been taught by 38 teachers and about 650 students have studied within it.
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