Didactics and Epistemology of Science

This course is an extension of Semester 1, focusing on the didactic and epistemological questions and issues addressed in the previous semester. Students will be invited, on the basis of a few examples, to analyze and explain certain specificities and common points (didactic and epistemological) of these fields of study discovered in the first semester. They will be invited to refine their knowledge of the characteristics linked to a didactic approach to questions of conceptualization, modeling and dissemination of scientific knowledge. The aim is to highlight, on the basis of a few examples, the interest for didactics of a discipline of epistemological and historical studies that enable us to look back at the ways in which its concepts are developed within the parent discipline, in interaction with other disciplinary fields and other approaches and issues arising from the didactics of other disciplines. 

• Didactics of mathematics : 
  • Decimal numbers 
  • Modeling 

• Didactics of physics and chemistry : 
  • Optics 
  • Chemical elements 

• Science didactics : 
  • Introduction to the didactics of scientific ecology 
  • The investigative approach 
  • Understanding and solving scientific tasks 

Proven skills (specific, cross-disciplinary) 

• Develop a critical awareness of knowledge in one field and/or at the interface of several fields 
• Carry out a reflective, distanced analysis that takes into account the issues, problems and complexity of a situation 
• Identify the processes involved in producing, disseminating and promoting knowledge. 
• Develop a critical awareness of knowledge in one field and/or at the interface of several fields.