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Klopfer, Leo E.; Aikenhead, Glen S. – Science Education, 2022
This article offers a retrospective synopsis of 70 years of development of a humanistic approach to science education. Instruction using the history of science, for example, provides a rich context for students to learn not only canonical science content on a need-to-know basis, but also content from the other domains of humanistic science…
Descriptors: Humanistic Education, Science Education, Educational History, Science History
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Marks, Ralf; Stuckey, Marc; Belova, Nadja; Eilks, Ingo – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2014
This paper reflects the theory and practice of societal-oriented science education in the past and present of German science teaching. Starting from a quite unique German justification for more thorough societal-oriented science education and some historical reflections a model for socio-scientific issues-based science teaching will be presented.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Educational History, Science History
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Guerra, Andreia; Braga, Marco; Reis, Jose Claudio – Science & Education, 2013
Various studies have promoted instruction in the history and philosophy of science (HPS) in science classes, but the best way of putting this perspective into practice remains undetermined. To contribute to this issue, we developed a pedagogical project in some high schools in Brazil that aimed to present science content using an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Science History, Science and Society