Call for Papers of the 7th Museum-School Collaboration symposium

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The 7th Museum-School Collaboration Symposium(MSCS) will be held in Changsha,Hunan Province, China, in September 24- Septembe25,2015.

The 7th Museum-School Collaboration Symposium(MSCS) which hold by CRISP. China Research Institute for Science Popularization (CRISP) is a non-profit organization which subordinate to the China Association for Science and Technology. CRISP now stands as a unique national institution dealing specially with studies on science and technology communication in China.

The 7th MSCS aims to provide an international forum for domestic and international practitioners, researchers, administrators and policy makers communicating ideas about improving science learning through museum school collaboration.We are currently calling for papers submissions.

Theme:Collaboration of Museum-School in the context of global science education reform Strands:

• Strand1: The trends and characteristics of the global science education reform
• Strand 2. Approach and means of STEM education in science museums
• Strand 3. How to design Science activities in science museums?
• Strand 4. Impact of science museums on knowledge construction
• Strand 5. Partnerships with primary and secondary school with science museums
• Strand 6. Evaluation of science activities in the science museums
• Strand 7. Science education function of the Industrial Heritage

Each research paper or case study submission should describe:

I. Research paper	II. Case study
1. Identified issue 2. Theoretical framework 3. Research Methods 4. data or typical case 5. Discussion and Conclusions	1. Identified issue 2. Objective of science activities in museums 3. Target audience/public/students 4.The science activities process 5. Evaluation/assessment of how well results achieved objectives

Paper submission

Accepted and presented papers will be published in the symposium proceeding. As a fruit of the Symposium, a book will be compiled based on the papers with necessary editing.

The deadline of the manuscript submission is May.31, 2015

Please submit the manuscript through E-mail to: mscs_crisp@126.com

If you have any question, please contact:
Ms. Zhang Pingping,Ms. Li Xiuju;
China Research Institute for Science Popularization
No.86 Xueyuan South Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China
Phone: +86-10-62103298; +86-10-62103300
Fax: +86-10-62103299
Museum-School Collaboration Symposium committee
No.86 Xueyuan South Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China
China Research Institute for Science Popularization