Abstract

GARRITZ, Andoni. History as a tool to promote learning. Educ. quím [online]. 2010, vol.21, n.4, pp.266-268. ISSN 0187-893X.

The language, customs, and manners of scientists are frequently unintelligible to the rest of the population, and there is considerable danger in a democratic society that the ideas and forces that are moving mountains will be increasingly inaccessible to those outside the laboratories. The analysis of historical cases inside scholar science may represent a way to set the bridge towards people understanding of what scientist do, what their generation knew of the great subjects of their era, of the problem they set out to examine, and of how they solved it.

Keywords : history; science learning; examples of success.