Article ID: CBB574408801

Bringing History into the Lab: A New Approach to Scientific Learning in General Education (2020)

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The postwar era produced novel pedagogical projects aimed at integrating history and science teaching. Above all, these were shaped by the pedagogy of James Bryant Conant, who placed history at the heart of general science education. While Conant’s expansive vision for history of science ultimately was not realized, its emphasis on experiential learning for nonscientists is worth revisiting for current integrative approaches to higher education. A team of two historians and one biologist has done this by developing a teaching model that infuses the humanities into two general science education courses through history lectures integrated with science labs. They assessed the model’s impact on learning outcomes, experiences, and attitudes toward science and history through a blind study of student participants. The results showed that courses taught using the model significantly improved experiences and attitudes toward science among students who were initially less friendly toward science and improved experiences and attitudes toward history among students who were initially less friendly toward history.

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Article Karen Rader (2020) Introduction: The Changing Pedagogical Landscapes of History of Science and the “Two Cultures”. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 568-575). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Badino, Massimiliano
Bowcutt, Frederica
Capshew, James H.
Frijhoff, Willem Th. M.
Hamilton, Vivien
Hamlin, Christopher S.
Journals
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Science and Education
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
British Journal for the History of Science
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Publishers
Indiana University
Concepts
History of science, as a discipline
Teaching; pedagogy
Science education and teaching
History as a discipline; chronology; study of the past
Science and gender
Experiments and experimentation
People
Conant, James Bryant
Kuhn, Thomas S.
Burkhardt, Frederick
Cohen, I. Bernard
Darwin, Charles Robert
Dirac, Paul Adrien Maurice
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Poland
Netherlands
Colombia
Institutions
Harvard University
University of Pennsylvania
Annales school
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
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