Astronomy and Disability: What is Essential is Invisible to Eye

GARCIA, BEATRIZ; MANCILLA, ALEXIS; MAYA, JAVIER; PÉREZ, SILVINA; YELOS, DIANA; CANCIO, ANGEL

Trieste

Workshop; Astronomy for disabled; 2014

ICTP

The approach to the Astronomy, the concepts, thefindings and the development of the sense of wonderbefore the comprehension of the natural world is a human right.The education for inclusion in Astronomy uses a rangeof educational and scientific insights that bring the sky to a palpable and sensitive space by generatingspecific resources. Creating strategies, tools and resources to provide the people with special educational needs or peoplewith visual, hearing and/or motor disabilities, a participative learning place; accessible and, at the same time, funny is part of our general project on Astronomy and inclusion.