Teachers’ Perception Related to the Promotion of Nanotechnology Concepts in Romanian Science Education

AbstractDuring the last years, a big number of researches illustrated a sharp decline in young people's interest for key Science studies. In order to increase the pupils’, students’ and teachers’ interest to Science, Valahia University of Targoviste started to implement with other five institutions from Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and Romania, the Project No. 511787-LLP-1-2010-1-TR-KA3-KA3MP entitled “Nano Technology for Science Education (NTSE)”. Taking into account the issues proposed by the NTSE Project, the project partnership started to question the different target groups about the level of knowledge, implementation stage and the most effective ways to introduce the nanotechnology concepts during the Science lessons, in secondary education. The paper presents the analysis of teachers’ answers related to their knowledge about nanotechnology, their opinions related to the possibility to adapt and implement the information concerning nanotechnologies in the frame of Science lessons, and which are the most effective ways to teach a particular scientific topic in a modern way. In addition, an analysis of the possible ways of using ICT tools for introducing nanotechnology concepts and related experiments to the students, will be also presented