The implementation of Apodictical Experimentation in the inquiring Scientific / Educational Methodology at Primary Education Science Courses and Laboratories in comparison with the Secondary Education

Kosmas Dendrinos, Mattheos Patrinopoulos
Science, Technology, Environment Laboratory,
Pedagogical Department P.E., Athens University
kdendrinos@primedu.uoa.gr, mpatrinopoulos@gmail.com

The particularity, the universal truth and -why not- the beauty of science springs out in great degree from the methodology that they follow and they constitute the tool for everybody who deals with them. The apodictical experimentation constitutes the basic element of method of science with its probative force to guarantee or to reverse each scientific affair turning it into natural prefecture with force as it is applied to each relative phenomenon allowing the development of technological applications. Can successful scientific methodology also be applied (as scientific / educational methodology) particularly to primary education? Is it possible for the students of 10 to 12 years old to act and think as scientists and researchers? How will they deal with the inquiring and apodictical experimental process? How will these experimental processes be applied in schools with lack of basic equipment? Asking the previous questions in the frame of the conference we attempt to discuss and search for possible solutions and successful practices.

Symposium 1

School Textbooks, Primary Education
Organizer/Discussant: Kalkanis G.

8 May 2009 09:00 - 11:00