Science, Education and Culture

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The course is developed under a system of seminars given by several experts using the following methodologies:
- expository method, complemented by students bibliographic and Web inquiries
- possible use of blended learning models, supported by a Moodle like platform
- encouragement and participation in workshops, conferences and debates
- oral presentations by the students and continuous email support
- bibliography and other relevant contents will be provided online

Evaluation: A small research project within one of the course topics will culminate in an oral presentation at a public session and the delivery of a written report formatted as a paper. The submission of this work to a national or international journal is encouraged.

Learning Outcomes

This unit aims to:

- relate HoST with a scientific cultural education

- develop an understanding on the discursive functioning of science

- contribute to a scientific education in non-formal contexts

- reflect on the reception of scientific academic discourse by the public at large

- understand the differences between scientific and non-scientific knowledge

- focus on the preservation and organization of scientific material heritage and archives

 

Students are expected to:

- understand the discursive functioning of science in formal and non-formal contexts

- know how to present scientific arguments and subjects to lay public

- develop abilities on the use of HoST in scientific education

- enlarge competencies towards scientific heritage and its preservation

- develop skills in oral and written communication

- evaluate the complex dynamics of the epistemological and cultural factors contributing to changes in science

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

History of Science sources and archives

Preservation and dissemination of scientific heritage

O Baú da Física e Química (Old Scientific Instruments in the Teaching and Popularization of Physics)

Philosophy and History of Science in scientific education

Public understanding of science and science communication

Scientific museology

Education and scientific culture (formal and informal environments

Discourses of science in schools and in non-formal education

Head Lecturer(s)

Carlota Isabel Leitão Pires Simões

Assessment Methods

Evaluation
oral presentation at a public session and the delivery of a written report formatted as a paper: 100.0%

Bibliography

M. Matthews, Science Teaching. The Role of History and Philosophy of Science, Routledge, 1994

A. Nieto-Galan, Los públicos de la ciencia: expertos y profanos através de la historia, Editorial Marcial Pons, 2011

B-Vincent & Blondel (Eds), Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment, Ashgate, 2008

C. Celestino Silva (org), Estudos de História e Filosofia das Ciências – Subsídios para aplicação no Ensino, São Paulo: Ed. Livraria da Física, 2006

Shinn, Whitley, (eds). Expository Science: Forms and Functions of Popularisation, Springer 1985

P. Findlen, Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy, Univ. California Press, 1996

S. Pearce (ed), Exploring science in museums, London: Athlone, 1996

G. Kavanagh (ed), Museum languages: objects & texts, Leicester Univ. Press 1996

J. Eidelman, M. van Praët, La muséologie des sciences et ses publics, P.U.F., 2000

Stone, Molyneaux (eds), The presented past: heritage, museums, & education, Routledge-EH, 1994