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Galileo's physics in high school teaching within the framework of the nature of science: a comprehensive educational experimentation.

Cioci V.
  Martedì 12/09   09:00 - 13:30   Aula F2 - Ginestra Giovene Amaldi   VII - Didattica e storia della fisica   Presentazione
This work is the result of 6 years of historical research and educational experimentation while I was a PhD student at the University of Lille (France) under the supervision of Professor Raffaele Pisano. Galileo's original texts and manuscripts concerning falling motion and parabolic motion were analysed, as well as the works of his precursors, in order to design a theoretical and laboratory educational path aimed at overcoming the main misconceptions and learning difficulties experienced by students. The rigorous analysis of the educational experimentation showed that students had changed their interest in physics, considered as an experimental science, and in the context in which physics historically developed. An important aspect, however, has been successfully reproduced with the students, in laboratories and school classrooms, the famous experiments performed by Galileo that sanctioned the birth of the experimental method. See: Cioci V.: $Galileo's$ Falling Bodies into the History of Physics and the Nature of Science as a Case Study, Doctoral Thesis under the supervision of Pisano R., University of Lille. Theses.fr/2022ULILH052 (2022).