Historical Scientific Instruments in Contemporary Education

Elizabeth Cavicchi completed a doctor of education (EdD) degree at Harvard University; master's degrees at Harvard, Boston University and MIT; undergraduate degrees at MIT. She has written and presented internationally on explorations interweaving history, science phenomena, teaching and learning. At MIT’s Edgerton Center, Cavicchi encourages learners to be explorers. Her seminars provide direct experiences with observation, experiment, instruments, history and social justice. Peter Heering is professor of physics and its didactics at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany. His research focuses on the history of physics, especially experimental practice, which he investigates using the replication method, the use of historical content in science education, and the historical development of teaching experiments in physics education.

• List of FiguresContributorsForewordIntroduction: Using Historical Scientific Instruments in Contemporary Education – Experiences and PerspectivesElizabeth Cavicchi and Peter Heering1. Reading Instruments for Historical Scientific Practice: An Experiential Pedagogy for Material Culture Alistair Kwan2. Filming Nineteenth Century Physics Demonstrations with Historical Instruments Paolo Brenni3. Making It about the Objects: A Reboot of a History of Science CourseJanet Laidla4. Using Original Instruments from a Museum Collection in Demonstrations Jan Waling Huisman5. The Collections of Scientific Instruments of the Faculty of Sciences of Rennes: A Tool for School Education and for the Training of Students and Teachers Julie Priser and Dominique Bernard6. The Collection of Scientific Instruments from the Maraslean Teaching Center and Experimental Science Education: Then and Now Panagiotis Lazos, Constantina Stefanidou and Constantine Skordoulis7. Examples of the Use in Education of Historical Physics Instruments at Secondary School and University Level in France supported by ASEISTE Françoise Khantine-Langlois, Alfonso San-Miguel and Pierre Lauginie8. The Use of the Museum Collection for Educational Purposes Roland Carchon and Danny Segers9. Historical Scientific Instruments in Exploratory Teaching and LearningElizabeth Cavicchi 10. “What Is Happening in the Lab?” Transforming the School Laboratory into a Contextual Science Teaching Environment Flora Paparou11. Historical Instruments, Education, and Do-It-Yourself in the Cabinet of Curiosity of Brest, France: University Experiences in Mathematics Frédérique Plantevin and Pietro Milici12. Educational Experiences in Re-Enacting Historical Experimental Procedures Peter Heering>13. The Lorentz Lab: Reviving the Scientific History of Teylers Museum with Working Replicas Trienke M. van der Spek14. The Fall of Bodies According to Galileo: A Free Adaptation from the Geneva Museum of the History of ScienceStéphane FischerIndex