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DD: Fachverband Didaktik der Physik

DD 40: Neue Medien III (NOS)

DD 40.2: Vortrag

Donnerstag, 28. Februar 2008, 16:00–16:20, EW 229

Role playing in science teaching: Using the history of science for nature-of-science activities in teacher (e-) training. — •Fanny Seroglou — School of Primary Education, Faculty of Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece. E-mail:seroglou@eled.auth.gr

Two nature-of-science activities for teacher (e-) training have been designed, developed, applied and evaluated in the context of two european research projects: The MAP prOject and STeT.

Both activities are based on the history of science and use narratives (short films) presenting the life and work of scientists in the past as well as their social and cultural context. The first activity focuses on Galileo's work on free fall while the second activity focuses on Faraday's work in electromagnetism.

During the activities teachers attend the films and develop and perform role-plays inspired by the films. The role-plays that take place in face-to-face teacher training courses are videotaped and included in the teacher e-training courses that are supported by the web sites developed in the context of The MAP prOject and STeT.

Both the films and the videotaped role-plays provide a range of opportunities for discussion and meta-reflection on aspects concerning the nature of science: the role of observation in an experiment, idealization and its impact in the relation between theories and experiments, the theoretical versus the practical approach to a scientific problem, the interrelations between science and society (religion, funding, class etc.)