NOTES TO THINK ABOUT PERIPHERAL SUBJECTS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE EDUCATION

Authors

  • Rodrigo Cerqueira do Nascimento Borba
  • Sandra Escovedo Selles

Keywords:

History of school subjects, curriculum, Science teaching, Biology education, biography

Abstract

This paper questions the historiographical trends that pervade the research in the history
of science Education, which are usually directed to historical subjects that have occupied privileged spaces
of production and socialization of knowledge. A body of combined theoretical-methodological
references of history, memory and the biographical movement supports this essay. The article argues for
the study of social trajectories of ordinary school actors, peripheral subjects who are made invisible by
historiography. In this sense, we suggest that studies that try to understand their lives’ trajectories and
the social and cultural contexts of their time, in a relational way, can offer significant subsidies to the
production of alternative stories about science education. In addition, the article questions certain
hegemonic representations about the past of the school subjects sciences and biology. To this, an
empirical research exercise based on the trajectory of a particular peripheral subject was developed. We
argue that this type of investigation – focused on the life stories of teachers who are currently in invisibility
1 Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais. Ibirité, MG, Brasil. <rodrigocnb@gmail.com>
2 Universidade Federal Fluminense. Niterói, RJ, Brasil. <escovedoselles@gmail.com>
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areas for the History of Science Education – can contribute to expand the repertoire of socio-historical
knowledge on the aforementioned school subjects.

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Published

2020-09-23

How to Cite

Cerqueira do Nascimento Borba, R., & Escovedo Selles, S. (2020). NOTES TO THINK ABOUT PERIPHERAL SUBJECTS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE EDUCATION. Educação Em Revista, 36(1). Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/edrevista/article/view/35597

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Vol. 36 No. 1 (2020): v.36 (2020)

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