What the COSMOS Approach Offers

The COSMOS project aims to contribute to the discourse and practice of open schooling by offering several developments in the conceptual understanding and implementation of open schooling for science education in schools. Several core elements comprise the COSMOS approach to open schooling:

1. A comprehensive and multidimensional model of school openness (Ecological model of school openness—Sarid et al., 2024);
2. A specific focus on the creation of organizational structures to support the implementation and sustainability of open schooling (CORPOS);
3. A pedagogy that supports the learning of science as, with and for the community (SSIBL-CoP).

In this section we articulate these three main elements of the COSMOS approach and clarify the relations among them. Other deliverables of the COSMOS project provide further resources for applying the COSMOS open schooling approach in schools supported by evidence-based insights and recommendations (i.e., theoretical framework, TPD handbook, roadmaps and policy briefs).

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