理科教育に科学古典を利用する一つの新らしい試み
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When teaching science, teachers often present the subject matter in a sort of authoritative way according to the textbook without being able to give much stimulus to students. Students have to follow the book and passively learn what is written there. It is partly in relation to this point that student-experiments and the use of audio-visual aids are of great importance. However, these methods are not always enough to produce satisfactory results. This difficulty, the present authors presume, may be solved to some extent by making proper use of classics in science. At the time when the classical treatises were written, their authors, as scientists, were facing new problems or trying to see familiar problems from an entirely new point of view. In other words, they were still groping their way towards a grasp of unknown scientific knowledge or laws which seem quite evident nowadays. This freshness of thought and attitude revealed in their writings is very valuable and may be effectively utilized in science teaching as a source of incentive and challenge to the students' attitude toward the subject matter. The present authors carefully studied Galileo's Dialogue on the Great World Systems and tried to use the material to introduce the concept of "inertia" to two second-year classes of a girls' junior high school. Nine questions were prepared, derived from the original discussions of the Dialogue, and the students were asked to write their answers to these questions on a sheet of paper in forty minutes. When the time was over, all of the students were very much interested in the subject and began actively to raise questions to the teacher or to discuss the matter among themselves. Thus, the result seems to have been very satisfactory. Although this is only a first trial, the present authors should like to report this result, as they think that the method described here may have some significance to the further development of science teaching.
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