Chemistry Teaching Experimentation: A Historical-Critical Approach
Experimentation. Historical-critical pedagogy. Chemistry teaching
Part of chemistry is grounded in experimental work. A range of chemical knowledge, historically produced by mankind, had been based on experiments. Therefore, we can understand chemistry as an experimental science so it is very difficult to dissociate experimentation from chemistry teaching. Our work aims to investigate general elements for experimentation in chemistry teaching, from the historical-critical perspective. The application of historical-critical pedagogy in the classroom is still a theme that needs to be better discussed by educators who study and plan to bring this pedagogy to their actual school practice. We think of experimentation as a broad teaching tool that should be thought of in the form-content-recipient dimensions. Our main objective is to think of experimentation as an integral part of the teaching / learning process in chemistry and how it can help in this process of transmitting the classic knowledge defended by historical-critical pedagogy.