The reflection that we present starts from a series of considerations, made in recent years, in the face of the growing difficulties that adolescents encounter in the study of mathematics and natural sciences. Our proposal is in a design path capable of arousing interest and curiosity, based on elements of the history of science, which do not exclude the very life of scientists. The starting hypothesis is that scientific study cannot be reduced to solving problems, to a constant and uninterrupted exercise book on disciplinary topics. In this way, in fact, and with the usual, consolidated methods, while recognizing the importance of how it is resolved, we risk the drying up of knowledge, as we do not question why. The historicization of science, on the other hand, helps to trace its roots and, when it uses the explanatory power of narration, it ignites the desire to know. In fact, storytelling is inherent to our being, it characterizes our human identity that wants to learn. The empirical fallout of this analysis is present in other essays that preceded this article. Here, above all, we want to draw the strings of an intellectual understanding and the educational consequences of a problem of urgent relevance today. The methodological approach with which both the analysis and the educational proposal are set is qualitative, consistent with the epistemological background, which has a hermeneutic framework.

La riflessione che presentiamo parte da una serie di considerazioni, effettuate negli ultimi anni, a fronte delle difficoltà crescenti che gli adolescenti incontrano nello studio della matematica e delle scienze della natura. La nostra proposta è in un percorso progettuale in grado di suscitare interesse e curiosità, fondato su elementi di storia della scienza, che non escludono la vita stessa degli scienziati. ù L’ipotesi di partenza è che studio scientifico non possa ridursi a soluzione di problemi, ad eserciziario costante ed ininterrotto sugli argomenti disciplinari. In tal modo, infatti, e con le consuete, consolidate modalità, pur riconoscendo l’importanza del come si risolve, si rischia l’inaridimento del sapere, in quanto non ci si interroga sul perché. La storicizzazione della scienza, invece, aiuta a rintracciarne le radici e, quando si serve della potenza esplicativa della narrazione, accende il desiderio di conoscere. Il raccontare infatti è connaturato al nostro essere, caratterizza la nostra identità umana che vuole apprendere. La ricaduta empirica di questa analisi è presente in altri saggi che hanno preceduto questo articolo. Qui vogliamo soprattutto tirare le fila di una comprensione intellettuale e delle conseguenze educative di un problema oggi di stringente attualità. L’approccio metodologico con cui si imposta sia l’analisi che la proposta educativa è qualitativo, coerente con lo sfondo epistemologico, che ha un impianto ermeneutico.

Narrare la scienza: Strategie per la formazione [Tell the science: Training strategies]

Poletti G.
;
Gramigna A.
2021

Abstract

The reflection that we present starts from a series of considerations, made in recent years, in the face of the growing difficulties that adolescents encounter in the study of mathematics and natural sciences. Our proposal is in a design path capable of arousing interest and curiosity, based on elements of the history of science, which do not exclude the very life of scientists. The starting hypothesis is that scientific study cannot be reduced to solving problems, to a constant and uninterrupted exercise book on disciplinary topics. In this way, in fact, and with the usual, consolidated methods, while recognizing the importance of how it is resolved, we risk the drying up of knowledge, as we do not question why. The historicization of science, on the other hand, helps to trace its roots and, when it uses the explanatory power of narration, it ignites the desire to know. In fact, storytelling is inherent to our being, it characterizes our human identity that wants to learn. The empirical fallout of this analysis is present in other essays that preceded this article. Here, above all, we want to draw the strings of an intellectual understanding and the educational consequences of a problem of urgent relevance today. The methodological approach with which both the analysis and the educational proposal are set is qualitative, consistent with the epistemological background, which has a hermeneutic framework.
2021
Poletti, G.; Gramigna, A.
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