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Stuart Mccook - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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focus global currents in national histories of Science the global turn and the History of Science in latin america
Isis; an international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences, 2013Co-Authors: Stuart MccookAbstract:The "global turn" in the History of Science offers new ways to think about how to do national and regional histories of Science, in this case the History of Science in Latin America. For example, it questions structuralist and diffusionist models of the spread of Science and shows the often active role that people in Latin America (and the rest of the Global South) played in the construction of "universal" scientific knowledge. It suggests that even national or regional histories of Science must be situated in a global context; all too often, such histories have treated global processes as a distant backdrop. At the same time, historians need to pay constant attention to the role of power in the construction of scientific knowledge. Finally, this essay highlights a methodological tool for writing globally inflected histories of Science: the method of "following".
Kapil Raj - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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beyond postcolonialism and postpositivism circulation and the global History of Science
Isis; an international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences, 2013Co-Authors: Kapil RajAbstract:ABSTRACTThis essay traces the parallel, but unrelated, evolution of two sets of reactions to traditional idealist History of Science in a world-historical context. While the scholars who fostered the postcolonial approach, in dealing with modern Science in the non-West, espoused an idealist vision, they nevertheless stressed its political and ideological underpinnings and engaged with the question of its putative Western roots. The postidealist History of Science developed its own vision with respect to the question of the global spread of modern Science, paying little heed to postcolonial debates. It then proposes a historiographical approach developed in large part by historians of South Asian politics, economics, and Science that, without compromising the preoccupations of each of the two groups, could help construct a mutually comprehensible and connected framework for the understanding of the global workings of the Sciences.
Pedro Teixeira - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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serving the institute and the discipline the changing profile of economics at mit as viewed from textbooks
History of Political Economy, 2014Co-Authors: Pedro TeixeiraAbstract:In recent years there has been a growing interest in History of Science in the study of textbooks and their multiple roles for the contemporary History of Science. In this text we look at MIT economics by exploring the role of textbooks in consolidation of the department’s position internally (within MIT) and externally (among other economics departments). We analyze the contribution of economists associated with MIT to the production of textbooks in economics and identify certain characteristics that help us to better understand the perceptions about this department and its role in the evolution of economics in the second half of the twentieth century.
Laurinda Leite - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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History of Science in Science education development and validation of a checklist for analysing the historical content of Science textbooks
Science Education, 2002Co-Authors: Laurinda LeiteAbstract:One of the aspects Science education should focus on is learning about Science.Achieving a good understanding of this aspect requires, among others, the useof the History of Science. There is some evidence that teachers rely heavily ontextbooks to select the historical content they include in their physical Sciencelessons. On the other hand, Portuguese physical Science syllabuses are not veryexplicit about the teaching of the Science. Therefore, textbook writers may notfeel compelled to give enough importance to the History of Science in their textbooksand consequently little History of Science will pervade the Science lessons. This paperaims to present a theoretically grounded checklist developed for analysing the historical content of Science textbooks. Five physics textbooks that are different with regard to historical content were analysed. Inter-ratter agreement was used in order to validate the checklist. The results of the analysis show that the checklist is able to reveal differences among textbooks and that the historical content included in the textbooks is hardly able to give students an adequate image of Science and scientists' work.
Roberto Andrade Martins - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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History and Nature of Science in High School: Building Up Parameters to Guide Educational Materials and Strategies
Science & Education, 2012Co-Authors: Thaís Cyrino De Mello Forato, Roberto Andrade Martins, Maurício PietrocolaAbstract:This article presents the main results of a research examining the didactic transposition of History and philosophy of Science in high school level. The adaptation of History of Science to this particular level, addressing some aspects of the nature of Science aiming at the students’ critical engagement, was analyzed by examining both the historiographic requirements of History of Science and the pedagogical recommendations of Science teaching. The research included the elaboration of a pilot course on the History of optics, with historical texts and educational activities, and its application in a high school. We used three episodes of the History of optics, addressing some epistemological points, especially criticizing the naive empirical-inductive view of Science. It was possible to identify a series of obstacles in using History of Science and conveying philosophical views. Their analysis resulted in devising strategies to surmount or to circumvent them. We implemented those strategies in the classroom and analyzed the data that was obtained. As a result, we substantiated several of our proposals and found that some solutions require improvement. We suggest some generalizations, which can be understood as initial parameters for guiding the use of History and philosophy of Science in Science teaching. We used a qualitative methodology of educational research to plan, to collect and to analyze the data, examining the interaction between students, teacher and knowledge.
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newton and colour the complex interplay of theory and experiment
Science Education, 2001Co-Authors: Roberto Andrade Martins, Cibelle CelestinoAbstract:The general aim of this paper is to elucidate some aspects of Newton's theory of light and colours, specially as presented in his first optical paper of 1672. This study analyzes Newton's main experiments intended to show that light is a mixture of rays with different refrangibilities. Although this theory is nowadays accepted and taught without discussion it is not as simple as it seems and many questions may arise in a critical study. Newton's theory of light and colour can be used as an example of the great care that must be taken when History of Science is applied to Science teaching. An inadequate use of History of Science in education may convey to the students a wrong conception of scientific method and a mythical idea of Science.
