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INTEGRATING THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS: FORCE AND MOTION
1 Université du Québec à Montréal (CANADA)
2 Université d'Ottawa (CANADA)
About this paper:
Appears in: INTED2018 Proceedings
Publication year: 2018
Page: 3596 (abstract only)
ISBN: 978-84-697-9480-7
ISSN: 2340-1079
doi: 10.21125/inted.2018.0692
Conference name: 12th International Technology, Education and Development Conference
Dates: 5-7 March, 2018
Location: Valencia, Spain
Abstract:
Learning physics, the central theme of this communication, has always been a difficult intellectual exercise (OECD, 2006). To correct this situation, many researchers suggest that science education should focus on the history of science (Métioui, Matoussi & Trudel, 2016; Henke & Hottecke, 2014). The present research is done in this perspective and will be used to illustrate the different theories developed during the history in the case of the study of movement. We will see that some theories developed by well-known scientists are erroneous and they influenced several generations of scientists. We will also see that the study of the abandoned theories in the classroom is more than appropriate since they are shared by many students, despite formal education. For example, the impetus theory formulated in the fourteenth century by Buridan (the movement of a body is held by the impulse and stops when the impulse disappears) is in epistemological rupture with which developed in the Newtonians study related to the movement.
Keywords:
History, Force, false conceptions, Teaching, Conceptual conflicts.