11-12-2019  Wednesday

07 August to 27 December, 2019

Teaching practice and school internship / design of learning resource [Part - 1 & 2]

Every Wednesday (11:00-13:00), Friday (11:00-13:00)

Venue: Main Building Seminar Room - 217

Coordinator: Dr. Reema Mani

  http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in/graduate-school

Semester I - Graduate Course

01Sun

NIUS Physics 16.2 Camp

Date: 01 to 31 December, 2019
Time: 09:00 - 06:00

Venue: NIUS Building Physics Lab

Coordinator: Dr. Rajesh Khaparde

NIUS Physics 16.2 Camp

01Sun

NIUS Physics 15.4 Camp

Date: 01 to 31 December, 2019
Time: 09:00 - 06:00

Venue: NIUS Building Physics Lab

Coordinator: Dr. Rajesh Khaparde

NIUS Physics 15.4 Camp

09Mon

Indian National Mathematical Olympiad Training Camp

Date: 09 to 13 December, 2019
Time: 09:00 - 17:30

Venue: Main Building Lecture Room - G2

Coordinator: Ms. Sumana Amin

Indian National Mathematical Olympiad Training Camp

09Mon

Haryana State Council for Science Innovation and Technology

Date: 09 to 13 December, 2019
Time: 09:00 - 00:00

Venue: Main Building Lecture Room - G1

Coordinator: Dr. N. D. Deshmukh

Haryana State Council for Science Innovation and Technology

10Tue

NIUS Teacher's Development Workshop

Date: 10 to 13 December, 2019
Time: 09:00 - 17:30

Venue: NIUS Building Lecture Hall - G4

Coordinator: Dr. Praveen Patak

NIUS Teacher's Development Workshop on Thermal Physics and Statistical Mechanics

11Wed

Seminar on "Historical approach to the spread of scientific culture and the role of education"

Date: 11 December, 2019
Time: 15:00 - 16:00

Venue: Main Building Lecture Room - G1

Coordinator: Prof. Jyotsna Vijapurkar

Speaker:

Prof. Bernardo Oliveira (School of Education, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Abstract:

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.

About the Speaker:

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.