French (Lamap) Team

Abstract

The French La Main a la Pâte (Lamap) Team only undertook the first round of pedagogical intervention and data collection, with data collection between December 2015 and January 2016. The pedagogical intervention was carried out in primary schools of the cities of Nancy, Troyes and Nogent sur Oise, in public schools exclusively. The foundation Lamap co-ordinated the local work, while the Laboratoire Adaptations Travail Individu (LATI, Paris Descartes University) collected the creativity data. All teachers participating in the project for the French (Lamap) team were focusing on science, and critical thinking was the focus of the intervention for this team. The intervention used Project Based Learning, the typical signature science pedagogy used by Lamap, with a strong emphasis on hands-on activities. See Chapter 3 for more detailed discussion on signature pedagogies.