Learning science through a historical approach Authors Rachel Mamlok-Naaman Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) Keywords: Nature of science, historical approach, aspects of science, technology and society. Abstract Various studies have shown that a high percentage of students, whether at high school or even at college level, hold positivistic views about nature and the ways scientific investigations are carried out. The module «Science: an ever-developing entity» intends to develop an understanding of the nature of science by using historical examples, related to developments of the structure of matter and dealing with aspects of science, technology and society.keywords: Nature of science, historical approach, aspects of science, technology and society. Downloads PDF (Català) Issue No. 23 (2017) Section Articles License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació Química, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana de Química (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació Química.Authors answer to Societat Catalana de Química for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Societat Catalana de Química declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Educació Química is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
