Insegnare Scienze: qualche considerazione metodologica, ma non solo

Abstract

Even if science stimulates the curiosity of young people because it has the charm of discovery and the unknown, the teaching/learning of scientific disciplines is in crisis at national and international level, particularly as far as high school is concerned. Obviously, in the classrooms, the natural disposition of young students towards scientific disciplines is not maintained, or even totally lost. There is, therefore, the need to reflect on ways of looking at the teaching of scientific disciplines and how to see the role that the students can play during their school experience. In other words, it is necessary to reconsider professional choices in the light of explicit awareness and reference models. In order to ensure that students understand the language and the ways of operating science, both scientific and pedagogical literature suggests: 1) exploiting hands-on inquiry-based learning, b) addressing issues associated with the daily realities in the social context, and c) using an interdisciplinary approach. These three aspects will be discussed in the present contribution.