Informal Science Education in the Footsteps of Galileo’s Dialogue - Advances in Historical Studies

AHS > Vol.8 No.5, December 2019

Advances in Historical Studies

Volume 8, Issue 5 (December 2019)

ISSN Print: 2327-0438 ISSN Online: 2327-0446

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Informal Science Education in the Footsteps of Galileo’s Dialogue ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ahs.2019.85013 512 Downloads 1,558 Views Citations

Author(s)

Constantina Stefanidou¹, Maria Panagopoulou²

Affiliation(s)

¹Department of Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
²Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

ABSTRACT

In this paper, the inclusion of History and Philosophy of Science in non-formal and informal science education is proposed in order to provide students with the opportunity to grasp some aspects of Nature of Science with which they are not familiarized in the context of formal education. The cultural aspects of science, which is an important component of scientific literacy, are presented in an informal education context: in this case, a Science Festival. An interactively narrative inspired by Galileo’s Dialogue is used in order to engage junior high school students with History of Science and to enhance their conceptual understanding of cultural aspects of science.

KEYWORDS

Galileo, Science Festival, Informal Science Education

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Stefanidou, C. and Panagopoulou, M. (2019) Informal Science Education in the Footsteps of Galileo’s Dialogue. Advances in Historical Studies, 8, 175-191. doi: 10.4236/ahs.2019.85013.

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