Introductions completed it was down to the second part of the workshop; placing the methods, approaches and material from our medieval and science collaboration at the service of our education partners. Vanessa Kind, with Per Kind and Dorothy Warren, led the days activities. Divided into groups, one focused on primary schooling (roughly 6-10 as theContinue reading “Workshop 2: Medieval Science and the Modern Curriculum: Part 3a PRIMARY”
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The educational strand – ideas from the student perspective
When I first read about the idea of linking the Ordered Universe Project to education, I was fascinated by the parallel drawn between knowledge development across time, within the individual on the one hand and in the history of science on the other. It seems to me to be an intriguing suggestion that there mayContinue reading “The educational strand – ideas from the student perspective”
Porto Experiences Thursday 27th June: De luce, Education and the History of Science
Thursday and the team kept at it, moving through the rest of the De luce, through the creation of the 9 celestial spheres (they are not named by Grosseteste but presumably followed the pattern 1 First Mover, 2 Fixed Stars, 3 Saturn, 4 Jupiter, 5 Mars, 6 Sun, 7 Venus, 8 Mercury, 9 Moon) and thenContinue reading “Porto Experiences Thursday 27th June: De luce, Education and the History of Science”