Abstract:

In this work, it has been doing a comparison between some really knowing methodologies of student-centred learning -Learning by doing; method Montessori; Constructivism; Constructionism and the innovating system Open Schooling. The objective is being able to evaluate it.

Specifically it has been working with an European project: Project Erasmus+ Open Science Schooling: Fostering re-engagement in science learning through open science schooling. The most important goal of the project consists in encourage “Open Science Schooling” where schools, in cooperation with other stakeholders, become an agent of community well-being; families are encouraged to become real partners in school life and activities; professionals from enterprise, civil and wider society are actively involved in bringing real-life projects into the classroom. The project is composed of three periods and nine phases, furthermore a conclusive phase. The blue period, the first one, aims to create consensus and readiness among partners, teachers and students and to mobilise the resources to collaborate with the project, locally and transnationally. The Green Period, the second one, will create the knowledge, experience and documentation on which the project outcomes will be based; the resource creation will follow the project’s five didactic challenges, stepwise building up capacity and resources towards the Red Period: the production and sharing of final results. The project’s final period, the Red Period, will transform the produced raw material, including from the Open Science Schooling Encounter, into high-quality useful outcomes. The outcome presentation will build on the project’s attractive access design that was developed along the project. The final production will, of course, be accompanied by systematic and powerful local and European level sharing and dissemination.

The study case is a school located in Gironella, Berguedà. During the first twelve months, the last school year, it was studied the environment with the mean idea of saving energy. The students have visited several companies and enterprises, in order to known their local community. The implication of the students’ families was essential for a good structure of the project. At the fifth phase, in this school year, it was selected the topic to study: "The forest: exploitation and contribution to the sustainability”. It has been chosen, given that the region contributes 70% of the wood of Catalonia. It is considered to be a topic that involves different stakeholders of local society: Wood sector companies (sawmills, biomass plant ...), the food sector (mushrooms, aromatic plants, honey ...), Research centres (Forest Technology Centre of Catalonia, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Fundació Alicia ...), Administration (Department of Education, City Councils, Regional Council ...) ... the central theme of the Forest will be approached from two points of very differentiated view: Use as raw material on the one hand, and contribution from the forest to the sustainability of the other.

Keywords:

Open Science Schooling, student-centred learning methodologies, forest, save energy.