THE HISTORy OF SCIENCE AND SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION: PROBLEmS AND PERSPECTIVES
Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2008, Vol 6, Issue 5
Abstract
In the past the gap between humanistic and scientifc culture was much more evident than it is nowadays. After centuries of prejudice about scientifc learning and discoveries, when science was underestimated as a kind of pseudo-culture; after generations of scientists considered extravagant people, or worst, outsiders, as regards such rules imposed by religious and moral beliefs and code, the primary function performed by scientifc education has now become unquestionable. In this paper we shall try to deal with the issue of scientifc education from a historical-foundational perspective. We shall try to show the importance of introducing the history of science as an integrant part of the culture of scientifc education to the extent of considering history of science either an indissoluble pedagogical element of culture or the basis of inter-discipline. This project-research is not fnished, so we only present the outline of the problem, some hypothesis and applications. Beyond, it is based upon use of historical categories to investigate the foundations. For this reason the latter are not analysed by means of a traditional approach. Of course, the content of this study could appear potentially factious, since it cannot be the unique possible perspective.
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Raffaele Pisano, ada Guerriero
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