Scientific Sources and Teaching Contexts Throughout History: Problems and Perspectives
This book examines the textual, social, cultural, practical and institutional environments to which the expression “teaching and learning contexts” refers. It reflects on the extent to which studying such environments helps us to better understand ancient or modern sources, and how notions of “teac...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2014, 2014
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- General Introduction; Alain Bernard and Christine Proust
- Part I: Holistic Approach
- The teaching context and reading from the 16th to the 19th centuries: The role of the memorization of texts in learning; Anne-Marie Chartier
- Teaching and learning medicine and exorcism at Uruk during the Hellenistic period; Philippe Clancier
- Part II: Critical Approach
- Does a master always write for his students? Some evidence from Old Babylonian scribal schools; Christine Proust
- In what sense did Theon’s commentary on the Almagest have a didactic purpose?; Alain Bernard
- Part III: Comparative Approach
- Relationships between French “practical arithmetics” and teaching?; Stéphane Lamassé
- On the transmission of mathematical knowledge in versified form in China; Andrea Bréard
- Mathematical Progress or Mathematical Teaching? Bilingualism and Printing In European Renaissance Mathematics; Giovanna C. Cifoletti
- Part IV: Zooming Approach.- Leonardo of Pisa and the Liber Abaci.Biographical elements and the project of the work; Eva Caianiello
- Didactical Dimensions of Mathematical Problems: Weighted Distribution in a Vietnamese Mathematical Treatise; Alexei Volkov
- Learning and Teaching Medicine in Late Imperial China; Florence Bretelle-Establet
- Post Face
- On the sources of the historian of science from the perspective of a history of education; Karine Chemla
- Index