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 provisional, it may undergo several 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 – Arthur Stinner – “The large context problem approach in teaching science (physics)”
11:30 – 12:15 – Panagiotis Kokkotas – “Story telling as a strategy for understanding concepts of electricity and electromagnetism”
14:00 – 14:45 – Sibel Enduran – “Historicity of Argument in the Science Classroom:  Progression and Development of Evidence-Based Reasoning in Teaching and Learning”
14:45 – 15:30 – Gábor Zemplén – “History of science and argumentation-analysis in science education”
16:00 – 16:45 – 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?”
16:45 – 17:30 – 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 – “NOS in teaching training courses: explicit approach from history of cosmology episodes”
9:45 – 10:30 – Peter Heering – “Pictures of an exhibition”
11:00 – 11:45 – Mansoor Niaz – “Dynamics of Scientific Progress: Do General Chemistry Textbooks Present a Historical Perspective?”
11:45 – 12:30 – Kevin de Berg – “Arrhenius and Armstrong: How active opponents in the history of chemistry became major contributors to modern electrolyte chemistry”
14:00 – 14:45 – Dietmar Höttecke – “Lessons on Implementing History and Philosophy in Science Education”
14:45 – 15:30 – Fanny Seroglou – “Science and Culture in Education: A Teacher Training Course”
16:00 – 16:45 – Antoni Roca-Rosell – “School, workshop and laboratory: the ideal of the Industrial School of Barcelona (1904)”
16:45 – 17:30 –Eric Scerri – “The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance”

9:00 – 9:45 –  HsingChi von Bergmann – “Constructing a Program of Study for Secondary Sciences Teachers to Enhance Contextualized Science Instruction”
9:45 – 10:30 – André Ferrer P. Martins – “History, philosophy, teaching and teacher training: mind the gaps”
11:00 – 11:30 – Maria Elice B. Prestes – “Using a history of biology’ episode in education: Lazzaro Spallanzani and his experimental studies with living beings”
11:30 – 12:15 –David Rudge; Eric M. Howe – “A Study on Using the History of Industrial Melanism to Teach the Nature of Science”
14:00 – 14:45 – Ana Caldeira – “History and Philosophy of Biology and Learning: The experience on Epistemology of Biology Research Group”
14:45 – 15:30 – Barbara MacMillan – “The Snowflake Men: Learning about Snow and the History of Snow Crystal Classification”
16:00 – 16:45 – William McComas – “Role and Nature of History in Teaching the Nature of Science: Looking Backwards toward the Future of Science Education”
16:45 – 17:30 – Alvaro Garcia Martinez – “History of science and in-service teacher training: The use of Experiments and Scientific Instruments”

9:00 – 9:45 –  Fabio Bevilacqua – “Classical Electromagnetic Theory: Textbooks, History, Stories and Web 2.0”
9:45 – 10:30 – Stephen Klassen – “Introductory University Physics Textbooks and the Photoelectric Effect: Can They Be Improved?”
11:00 – 11:45 – Agustin Adúriz-Bravo – “Learning science and the nature of science through historical narratives”
11:45 – 12:30 – Douglas Allchin – “Case Studies and 'Whole Science'”
14:00 – 14:45 – Elizabeth Cavicchi – “Becoming Galileo in the Classroom”
14:45 – 15:30 – Jose Antonio Chamizo – “Heuristic diagrams as a tool in history  of science teaching”
16:00 – 16:45 – Michael Matthews – “Science and Worldviews in the Classroom: Joseph Priestley and Photosynthesis”
16:45 – 17:30 – Don Metz - “A Story Interrupted: Integrating History and Philosophy of Science in Everyday Instruction”
17:30 – 18:00 – Closing session