Bertolt Brecht's Life of Galileo as a pedagogic device for a contextualized teaching of Physics

Authors

  • Diego Zanarini

Keywords:

Physics pedagogy, Physics and literature, Science history and epistemology.

Abstract

In the current curricular designs of secondary school and college a contextualized teaching of the Physics is promoted, addressing historical and epistemological aspects. In this essay I will base my point of view on the particularity of the didactic transposition as involved in this contextualization. Considering the science is a human production mediated by language, I will show how the work Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht can con-stitute a didactic resource to promote a contextualized teach of scientific subjects.

Published

2017-11-02

How to Cite

Zanarini, D. (2017). Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo as a pedagogic device for a contextualized teaching of Physics. Journal of Physics Teaching, 29, 491–498. Retrieved from https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/revistaEF/article/view/18508