Coordinator: Dr. Reema Mani
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Coordinator: Dr. Rajesh Khaparde
01Sun
Coordinator: Dr. Rajesh Khaparde
09Mon
Coordinator: Ms. Sumana Amin
09Mon
Coordinator: Dr. N. D. Deshmukh
10Tue
Coordinator: Dr. Praveen Patak
11Wed
Coordinator: Prof. Jyotsna Vijapurkar
Prof. Bernardo Oliveira (School of Education, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Once the nature of science has become recognized as an important aspect of science education, it becomes important for science teachers to discuss different historical and philosophical perspectives of science. I will discuss in this talk some assumptions and historiographical categories, such as “scientific culture”, “literary technology”, “intermediaries”, “Knowledge in transit”, which consider communication as an indispensable part of the process of scientific thinking. Diverse initiatives that get public attention on science, its values, and authority, such as fairs, magazines, museums, shows, movies, and schooling are not merely vehicles of diffusion, but even parts of the knowledge process. These activities are analyzed in their complexity, inventiveness and cultural impact, involving a wide range of actors and practices that were disregarded in the traditional approach to the history of science. To discuss the role of education in science, I will refer to a case of an encyclopedia for children, as an example of an important piece of scientific culturalization in several countries at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Bernardo J. Oliveira has a Bachelor's in Geography, a Master's Degree in Philosophy from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and a PhD in Philosophy from the UFMG (2000) with a research internship at Harvard University (1997-98), and post-doctoral studies at MIT (2004) and the Université Sorbonne (2011). He is a full professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He was director of the Museum Espaço do Conhecimento. He has experience in the area of history of education, history of science, philosophy of technique, science museum and scientific imagination.