This book offers a comprehensive overview of research at interface
between History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science (HPSS) and Science
Teaching in Ibero-America. It contributes to research on
contextualization of science for students, teachers and researchers, and
explains how to use different episodes of history of science or
different themes of philosophy of science in regular science classes
through diverse pedagogical approaches.
The chapters in this book discuss a wide range of topics under different
methodological, epistemological and didactic approaches, reflecting the
richness of research developed in Spanish and Portuguese speaking
countries, Latin America, Spain and Portugal. The book contains chapters
about historical events, topics of philosophy and sociology of science,
nature of science, applications of HPSS in the classroom, instructional
materials for students and teacher training courses and curriculum.