From the perception of science to the design of teaching materials

All over Europe a number of countries have national curricula: France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, the United Kingdom. In the majority of these countries common guidelines for conceiving a core curriculum – subject curricula, syllabuses, and textbooks – are followed. Science Education for Development of European Citizenship European project tried to offer an interesting and necessary perspective of approaching Science education in schools. The present Project intends to present a new approach of this topic where the pupils` opinions and teachers` perceptions matter, specialists in pure Science, researchers in Science field and in the education field as well, museums educators and Science teachers being working together. In the third working group within SEDEC Project – the Teaching Materials working group (TM) – we try to conceive educational materials starting from the teachers` perceptions about teaching Science in order to develop their pupils` behaviors as European citizens. In the following we will show in which way we tried to reach to teachers` perceptions and what are our plans in terms of concrete categories of educational materials that can be developed starting from teachers` perceptions. To fulfill this goal two teachers` debates were organized in two countries of the SEDEC – France (with primary education teachers) and Romania (with secondary education teachers) so far. To understand French and Romanian teachers` points of view about Science lessons and their activity with students within classrooms, as debate results, in the following we will make a short insert on these two education systems in terms of curriculum organization.