Patrice Potvin

Director of the Science and Technology Education Research Team Université du Québec à Montreal

Patrice Potvin is a professor of science and technology education at the Faculty of Education of the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM). A former teacher (7 years), he has also worked in the development of numerous training programs. Holder of the Research Chair on interest of young people toward science and technology (CRIJEST) and director of the Science and technology education research team (EREST), his research and development interests focus on student interest in science, open science learning, computer-assisted learning, teacher training, and conceptual change through a neuro-educational approach (cognitive control, inhibition and engagement). Author of more than 400 publications and papers (in journals such as Studies in Science Education, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Research in Science Education, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, etc.), he recently published, in the Université Laval Press, the book “Making students learn school science and technology: Using Epistemology, didactics, cognitive sciences and neuroscience for teaching”. In 2014, he was appointed a member of the Royal Society of Canada.