scholarly journals Modelo teórico de aproximações para o ensino de Ciências entre as premissas da História da Ciência e do pensamento crítico

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Sigouveny Cruz Cardoso ◽  
Erivanildo Lopes da Silva

No ensino de Ciências, o conhecimento científico para a tomada de decisão pode ser um fator preponderante para fundamentar o desenvolvimento de abordagens metodológicas para a resolução de problemas em sala de aula. Desse modo, a História da Ciência é considerada uma abordagem fundamental para essa contextualização do conhecimento científico em propostas didáticas que visem o desenvolvimento de habilidades cognitivas relacionadas ao pensamento crítico dos estudantes. Neste estudo, considera-se complexa a elaboração de propostas didáticas para o ensino de Ciências sem um modelo que direcione as atividades para tal finalidade. Então, esta pesquisa objetiva estabelecer aproximações teóricas entre a História da Ciência e o pensamento crítico para o ensino de Ciências, propondo um modelo teórico com articulações entre seus objetivos. Ao considerar o conhecimento para a tomada de decisão como um aspecto central dessas aproximações, o estudo apresenta correlações implícitas e explícitas para o planejamento de propostas didáticas. Essas articulações teóricas possuem implicações consideradas fundamentais para a educação científica, em virtude de apresentar um modelo teórico para ensinar Ciências pelas dimensões teóricas de análise, problematização e distinção de informações científicas, ao materializá-las em atividades de aprendizagem que viabilizem a tomada de decisão e a resolução de problemas científicos.Theoretical model of approaches for the teaching of Science between the premisses of the History of Science and critical thinkingAbstractIn Science education, scientific knowledge for decision-making can be a major factor to support the development of methodological approaches to problem solving in the classroom. In this way, the History of Science is considered a fundamental approach for this contextualization of scientific knowledge, in didactic proposals that aim at the development of cognitive skills related to students’ critical thinking. In this study, the elaboration of didactic proposals for the teaching of Science is considered complex, without a model that directs activities for this purpose. So, this research aims to establish theoretical approaches between the History of Science and critical thinking, for the teaching of Science, proposing a theoretical model with articulations between its objectives. When considering knowledge for decision making as a central aspect of these approaches, the study presents implicit and explicit correlations for the planning of didactic proposals. These theoretical articulations have implications considered fundamental for scientific education, as they present a theoretical model for teaching Science through the theoretical dimensions of analysis, problematization and distinction of contextualized scientific information, when materializing them in learning activities that enable decision-making and solving scientific problems.Keywords: History of science; Critical thinking; Theoretical approaches; Science teaching.

Author(s):  
Helen Mamchur ◽  
Andrei Paramonov

The article discusses the problem of truth in scientific knowledge in a polemical form. The concept of internal truth, according to which truth in science is understood as the correspondence of a theory to its subject, is opposed to the concept of truth, which science strives for, as the knowledge of things in themselves. According to the latter, truth is always internal and in scientific constructions we never leave the boundaries of the language of theory. These concepts of truth are analyzed using examples from the history of science, where the synthesis strategy serves as an effective mechanism for resolving contradictions between different theoretical approaches. Questions of understanding the truth are also considered in the horizon of possible strategies for resolving contradictions between fundamental theories in modern science. The phenomenon of productive errors in science is touched upon.


Author(s):  
Staffan Müller-Wille

This article explores what both historians of medicine and historians of science could gain from a stronger entanglement of their respective research agendas. It first gives a cursory outline of the history of the relationship between science and medicine since the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century. Medicine can very well be seen as a domain that was highly productive of scientific knowledge, yet in ways that do not fit very well with the historiographic framework that dominated the history of science. Furthermore, the article discusses two alternative historiographical approaches that offer ways of thinking about the growth of knowledge that fit well with the cumulative and translational patterns that characterize the development of the medical sciences, and also provide an understanding of concepts such as ‘health’ and ‘life’.


Author(s):  
Juliana Mesquita Hidalgo ◽  
Daniel De Medeiros Queiroz

ResumoO presente trabalho visa contribuir com a fundamentação teórica para a escrita de biografias científicas com fins didáticos. O gênero biográfico é um legítimo foro de “humanização” do conhecimento científico, um dos papéis centrais da inserção didática da História da Ciência. Recortes biográficos que não representem os cientistas com caráter sobre-humano, escritos não como absoluta verdade, e sim como história interpretada, podem ser úteis no contexto educacional. Sugerimos a escrita de recortes biográficos destinados à educação científica que considere os novos aportes do gênero, isto é, à luz de fundamentos historiográficos atualizados. São apresentados subsídios da área disciplinar História, a exemplo da perspectiva de história-problema, e subsídios da História da Ciência, em objeção às biografias laudatórias.Palavras-chave: Biografia Científica; Gênero Biográfico; Historiografia.AbstractThis paper aims to contribute for the theoretical foundation concerning the writing of scientific biographies for didactic purposes. Biographical genre is a legitimate forum “to humanize” the scientific knowledge, one of the central roles of the didactic insertion of the History of Science. Biographical fragments not representative of scientists as “superhuman” and written as interpreted history, may be useful in the educational context. We suggest the writing of biographical fragments for science education that consider the new contributions of the genre, in other words, in light of historiographical foundations currently accepted. Subsidies from the disciplinary area History are presented, such as the perspective of history as problem, and subsidies from History of Science, in objection to laudatory biographies.Keywords: Scientific Biography; Biographical Genre; Historiography.


BMC Nursing ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Soleiman Ahmady ◽  
Sara Shahbazi

Abstract Background The complex health system and challenging patient care environment require experienced nurses, especially those with high cognitive skills such as problem-solving, decision- making and critical thinking. Therefore, this study investigated the impact of social problem-solving training on nursing students’ critical thinking and decision-making. Methods This study was quasi-experimental research and pre-test and post-test design and performed on 40 undergraduate/four-year students of nursing in Borujen Nursing School/Iran that was randomly divided into 2 groups; experimental (n = 20) and control (n = 20). Then, a social problem-solving course was held for the experimental group. A demographic questionnaire, social problem-solving inventory-revised, California critical thinking test, and decision-making questionnaire was used to collect the information. The reliability and validity of all of them were confirmed. Data analysis was performed using SPSS software and independent sampled T-test, paired T-test, square chi, and Pearson correlation coefficient. Results The finding indicated that the social problem-solving course positively affected the student’ social problem-solving and decision-making and critical thinking skills after the instructional course in the experimental group (P < 0.05), but this result was not observed in the control group (P > 0.05). Conclusions The results showed that structured social problem-solving training could improve cognitive problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making skills. Considering this result, nursing education should be presented using new strategies and creative and different ways from traditional education methods. Cognitive skills training should be integrated in the nursing curriculum. Therefore, training cognitive skills such as problem- solving to nursing students is recommended.


Author(s):  
Joseph W. Campbell

Chapter 2 shows in a compressed, somewhat truncated way, the unique history of science fiction (sometimes called speculative fiction). This chapter also shows some of the myriad theoretical approaches that have been used in the study of science fiction over time. It then demonstrates how those approaches have been used by giving close readings of science fiction texts intended for young adults. This is in an effort to show the difference between science fiction and dystopian literature. It shows that it is a literature directly concerned with the subject’s encounter with the o/Other.


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