Citizen Science Pilot Experiment in High Schools

The paper contains three parts. The first part presents the theoretical backgrounds of the relationship between science and civil society, and the concept as well as concrete examples of the Citizen Science. The second part reports the results of a pilot study (sondage) in which students from five (Slovenian) High Schools expressed their views regarding the meaning of ecology and sustainable development. In the third part, so-called group-feedback analysis with the participation of students is considered, regarded as a contribution to the concept of the Citizen Science Experiment. The results show that while the students are receiving solid knowledge on ecological and environmental issues, especially in biology courses, there is a certain lack of more integral didactic approaches and the students’ interests seem to be more declarative and pragmatic (school-centric)