Date: Friday, 3 July 2026
Venue: SASEP 2026
Group: C
Modules Attended: Module 3 (Morning Session) and Module 2 (Afternoon Session)
The first official day of the South Asian Science Education Programme (SASEP) 2026 commenced with participants rotating into their assigned modules. As a member of Group C, I began the programme with Module 3 during the morning session and attended Module 2 in the afternoon, as outlined in the official programme schedule.
Morning Session (9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.)
Module 3
Facilitator: Professor Joe (Los Angeles, USA)
The first learning session was intellectually stimulating and focused on Science as a Process rather than merely a collection of facts. Professor Joe emphasized that scientific knowledge develops through continuous observation, questioning, experimentation, and refinement of ideas.
He began by discussing the historical development of our understanding of the universe. The session explored the transition from the Earth-centred (Geocentric) Model to the Sun-centred (Heliocentric) Model of the solar system. Through this historical journey, he illustrated how scientific theories evolve when new evidence becomes available. One of the key concepts discussed was stellar parallax, which eventually provided strong evidence supporting the heliocentric model and disproved many limitations of the earlier geocentric belief.
Professor Joe stressed that science is self-correcting. Ideas that were once widely accepted can be replaced when better observations and stronger evidence emerge. This discussion reinforced the importance of evidence-based reasoning and critical thinking in scientific inquiry.
