History of physics as a didactic tool

• Autores: Jorgo Mandili, Silvana Mico, Valbona Tahiri
• 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. 1184-1187
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The history of physics provides the students with recognition about the history of human efforts in science.

    Through this discipline they become familiar with the lives of great scientists and the gradual evolution of ideas.

    Although there are several exact theories accepted by all, scientific theories are still open to be attacked by new experiments and new ideas. On the other hand, through this discipline, the pupils or students have the opportunity to ask and to be active in practice, to collect historical material in order to establish a museum of physics, or to set up software according to the historical periods of development of science and technology. .

    As an attempt to find teaching strategies to improve the teaching of science, we should consider the history of science as a teaching tool and as a description of integrated school curricula. The purpose of this article is to treat some of these problems addressed on the Course of History of Physics. This course will reflect the overall development of the main areas of physics, as we know today. It will appear as a clear linear model, and develop the main forms in each area, which will evidence that science is the attempt to give a rational explanation of the laws in nature, more accurate than magical or religious explanations.

    People in different countries of the world began to develop science at different times, with different accents.

    Looking at the history of science as part of the culture to transmit to school can be argued that this emerged as a discipline in itself.

    According to our opinion the history of science can be considered as a part of curricula and will be appropriate to observe possible results of the introduction of historical arguments.

    - The first result is the transmission of information on the historical development of knowledge, with the relation science-technology-society.

    - The second result is the best acquisition of physics through analyzing the physical ideas from a historical viewpoint.

    - The third result is engagement of students in practical activities, projects, papers and assignments to build a museum of history of physics. It can lead to a greater integration between the human and scientific area through an interpretation of the history that realizes the ratios; man-environment, human-nature related with the development of technology through integrated analysis in social and economic form.