The use of history to improve the teaching of physics. Scientific ideas in antiquity and the Middle Ages
The world that the student observes with his senses is different from the one that is taught: the Earth is still, bodies when thrown stop, a pendulum does not swing eternally, etc. It is then that we realize, as Kuhn mentions at the time, the students are "naturally" Aristotelian. That is...
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Asociación de Profesores de Física de la Argentina
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/revistaEF/article/view/43313 |
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| Sumario: | The world that the student observes with his senses is different from the one that is taught: the Earth is still, bodies when thrown stop, a pendulum does not swing eternally, etc. It is then that we realize, as Kuhn mentions at the time, the students are "naturally" Aristotelian. That is why I think it is useful for the professor of physics to begin by showing, at least, a part of the physical ideas that were developed during antiquity and the Middle Ages, and use that historical fact, from here, to accompany the student to understand the birth of the new physics, as the passage from adolescent intuition to adult rationalism. This is the fundamental purpose of this work. |
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