Darwinism in Context : An interdisciplinary, highly contextualized course on nature of science
Kostas Kampourakis|Christos Gripiotis
Summary In this article, we describe a course, titled Darwinism in Context , which focuses on the social, cultural and scientific influences development of Darwin's theory. This was an interdisciplinary, highly contextualized nature science course that aimed to help students learn about core aspect: there are historical, social practice directions science. For purpose, based well-documented historical case study: The consisted five classes focused on: (a) Victorian society, (b) views beliefs scholars had impact thinking (historical influences), (c) aspects personal life influenced publication his theory (social (d) reception relationship between religion (cultural influences) (e) literature. all cases, teaching included presentations events but mostly analysis discussion excerpts from respective original writings. During only few examples were presented; motivated study further writings identify some key concepts ideas after classes. It is concluded kind instruction can provide with more authentic view
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