Abstract:

The Center for Science Education and Training, a small department at the National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, is active in supporting science education at pre-university level, from kindergarten to high school. The Center team is involved in several national and European projects mostly devoted to inquiry-based teaching and active learning.

The present paper presents the “Creativity in Early Years Science Education – CEYS” project (www.ceys-project.eu), focused on the “action research” (AR) as a method to train early years education school teachers in developing children creativity, through science teaching, project developed in partnership with colleagues from Belgium, Greece and UK.

We report here our achievements and challenges we are facing in promoting this method to the Romanian early years teachers community. Examples of the achieved results are given along with participating teachers’ feedback.

The conclusions based on the implementation of this project are assisting us in tailoring teachers’ training sessions according to national curriculum, teachers interest and background and considering constrains the Romanian teachers have to face.

Acknowledgement:
The authors acknowledge the financial support of the European Union Erasmus+ Programme (2014‐2017) under Grant Agreement no: 2014- 1-EL01-KA201-001644 - project Creativity in Early Years Science Education – CEYS.

Keywords:

Early years science education, action research, creativity, science teaching.