History of sciences and the teaching of life and earth sciences in french secondary school.: What kind of teacher's training and what kind of teaching?

• Autores: Pierre Savaton
• Localización: The Circulation of Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science. Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010 / coord. por Antoni M. Roca Rosell, 2012, ISBN 978-84-9965-108-8, págs. 97-101
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Since 2005, learning programmes of Biology and Geology of pre-academics classes (pupils from 11 to 18 years) indicate that it’ possible to introduce some elements of history of sciences relating to the science’s concepts studing into these classes. Bu, It’s just a possibility. Sciences teachers must follow the experimental method and not the historical one. It’s through an investigative approach (démarche d’investigation) that historical elements can be used as well as experimentation or studies of current scientific documents. Usually the university training of Biology and Geology teachers does not include studies of history of sciences and the inservice training of teachers (of the national education) does not include training courses in history of sciences neither. Thus, teachers must be trained by themselves if they want to introduce elements of history of sciences into their sciences courses. The new textbooks present some pages of historical data, reduced to some lines of an historical source and some lines of context, or even just a photograph of a great scholar. There is a risk to reduce history of sciences to an illustrative and anecdotic role.

    This assessment established, the communication will discuss the reasons which are opposed to a real introduction of history of sciences into secundary courses of sciences, and which explain the lack of sciences history courses in teachers training.