Posts com a Tag ‘VINCENT Philippe (Org d)’

In order to inquire into the foundations of the History and Philosophy of Science & its connection to Education, more specifically, teaching science-NoS, the Inter-Divisional Teaching Commission (IDTC)3 reached high-level researchers to share their most recent works and findings in methods and cognitive modelling as the IDTC Special Issue on HPS-&- Education. By combining approaches of natural sciences & humanities in the investigation of the topics and promoting the cooperation between teaching educators, historians of science, historians and philosophers of science and specialist, the following articles offer an interesting influence on the actual debate from scientific, educationally and culturally standpoints.

In the context of nowadays constraints and technological progress regarding the teaching of physical and mathematical sciences, the investigation of the relevant scientificeducational questions is becoming more and more emergent. As such, and since science is synonymous with modernity and progress, research has to be evolving with its time as well as Nature of Science, Scientific Mediation, Popularization of Science and Technique, and Teaching methods and contents. Moreover, physics (Pisano 2009; Pisano and Capecchi 2015), mathematics (Dhombres 1992) and science education (Pisano and Bussotti 2015a, 2015c) are also a complex social phenomenon (Pisano 2016) since they are influenced by the labour market and the elementary knowledge of sciences required by anyone in the social-economic daily life. Leia Mais