Resultados obtenidos introduciendo historia de la ciencia en las clases de física y química: mejora de la imagen de la ciencia y desarrollo de actitudes positivas

Abstract

This is a report about research and results in the application of History of Science to Science Teaching. After a first approach to analyse which is today’s status of History of Science in high school Physics and Chemistry classes, we attempt to demonstrate that an appropriate introduction of several aspects of history and sociology of Science in our classes can operate a significant improvement in pupil’s image and attitudes in Science and Science Teaching. We will show that several groups of pupils from 15 to 17 improve significantly their interest in Science after at least a year working with papers containing many different activities that involve different historical aspects of Science, i.e., context biographies, original papers, reports on STS in history or videos showing the making and growth of major concepts in Physics and Chemistry.