8th International Conference for the History of Science in Science Education

8th International Conference for the History of Science in Science Education: Learning science and about science through history

    Each one of the invited speakers will have 45 minutes available for presentation and discussion of his/her paper. There will be no parallel sessions, to facilitate intensive dialogue and exchange of ideas among attendants about the historic, didactic and methodologic issues of each work.
    The Program presented below is expected to be the final one, but it may undergo a few changes.
    Speakers are invited to submit a final version of their papers for publication. The papers should not exceed 5,000 words. The deadline for submission of papers is October 31, 2010. The contributions, in Word format, should be sent to the Conference e-mail address, mail@hpsst-brazil2010.org.

9:00 – 9:30 –  Openning session
9:30 – 10:15 – Roberto de Andrade Martins - "Lost knowledge: sundials, the duration of days and nights, the spherical Earth and geocentric astronomy"
10:45 – 11:30 – Peter Heering - "Pictures of an exhibition"
11:30 – 12:15 – Alvaro Garcia Martinez – “History of science and in-service teacher training: The use of experiments and scientific instruments”
15:15 – 16:00 – Mario Quintanilla – “The history of science and its contribution to the new education of sciences: What has to change in the formation of the teachers?”
16:00 – 16:45 – Michael Barth – “History of Science as a tool for teaching scientific methodology: Experiences from school-teaching and teacher-training”9:00 – 9:45 –  Cibelle Celestino Silva – “History of physics in college teaching: the development of the “vector potential” concept in electromagnetic theory”
9:45 – 10:30 – Don Metz - “A Story Interrupted: Integrating History and Philosophy of Science in Everyday Instruction”11:00 – 11:45 – Panagiotis Kokkotas – “Story telling as a strategy for understanding concepts of electricity and electromagnetism”
11:45 – 12:30 – William McComas – “A Descriptive Typology of the Use of History of Science in Science Instruction: What Research Says about what works”15:30 – 16:15 – Eric Scerri – “The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance”
16:15 – 17:00 – André Ferrer P. Martins – “History, philosophy, teaching and teacher training: mind the gaps”9:00 – 9:45 – Maria Elice B. Prestes – “Using a history of biology episode in education: Lazzaro Spallanzani and his experimental studies with living beings” 
9:45 – 10:30 – Ana Caldeira – “History and Philosophy of Biology and Learning: The experience on Epistemology of Biology Research Group”11:00 – 11:45 – Elizabeth Cavicchi – “Becoming Galileo in the Classroom”
11:45 – 12:30 – Barbara MacMillan – “The Snowflake Men: Learning about Snow and the History of Snow Crystal Classification”15:30 – 16:15 – Stephen Klassen – “Portrayal of the history of the photoelectric effect in laboratory instructions”
16:15 – 17:00 – Agustin Adúriz-Bravo – “Learning science and the nature of science through historical narratives”9:00 – 9:45 –  David Rudge - "Whither the VNOS?"
9:45 – 10:30 – Douglas Allchin - "Evaluating Knowledge of the Nature of (Whole) Science"
11:00 – 11:45 – Michael Matthews – “Science and Worldviews in the Classroom: Joseph Priestley and Photosynthesis”
11:45 – 12:30 – Final discussion and closing session