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DD: Fachverband Didaktik der Physik

DD 40: Neue Medien III (NOS)

DD 40.1: Vortrag

Donnerstag, 28. Februar 2008, 15:40–16:00, EW 229

Teaching science using case studies from History of Science: The design of science teachers' training e-modules — •Panagiotis Kokkotas¹, Panagiotis Piliouras², and Efthimios Stamoulis³ — ¹Professor, Faculty of Primary Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece — ²Ph.D. in Science Education — ³Ph.D Student

Nowadays, science education research emphasizes on the importance of incorporating meaningful contexts like historical case studies in learning science (e.g. Stinner et al., 2003; Bevilaqua & Giannetto, 1998; Heering, 2000, Seroglou & Koumaras 2001) and the nature of science in instruction (e.g. McComas et al., 1998). It is asserted that the utilization of History of Science for proper science understanding, and hence the need for its inclusion in appropriate designed curricula (e.g. Matthews, 1994). The paper concerns the design and the presentation of modules appropriate for science teachers' e-training which are based on the aspect that History of Science promotes physics learning. The design of a training curriculum on the topics of electricity and electromagnetism was used for the development of a training e-material on the context of the "STeT project", that is a European Union Comenius 2.1 program - a cooperation of five European Universities - concerning the contribution of History of Science in science teaching. The use of ICT in Education, and especially in the procedure of teachers' training and retraining can renovate their education. This guides us to develop an interactive material based on socioconstructivist and sociocultural learning principles appropriate for distance-learning training.