TITLE:
Informal Science Education in the Footsteps of Galileo’s Dialogue
AUTHORS:
Constantina Stefanidou, Maria Panagopoulou
KEYWORDS:
Galileo, Science Festival, Informal Science Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Historical Studies,
Vol.8 No.5,
November
6,
2019
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.