ISSHPSE 2017

 Welcome to ISSHPSE–2017 Official Website

2nd International Summer School for Sciences | History and Philosophy of Sciences | Technology | Education

 New HPS-Educational and Fundamental Insights

   2017, October 11th | Ecole Doctorale SHS, Lille University, Villeneuve D'Ascq, France

2017, October 12nd | MESHS, Lille, France   

both venues 9h-17h30

Hosted by

Inter-Divisional Teaching Commission (IDTC)
Maison Européenne des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (MESHS) Lille, France
École doctorale Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société (ED SHS) Lille University, France

Interdisciplinary Approach

• Architecture, Art/Museum, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Education, Engineering, Instruments, History and Historical Epistemology of Sciences, Literature, Medicine, Nature of Science, Pedagogy, Philosophy of Sciences, Physics, Mathematics, Foundations of Science, Teaching-Learning, Reasoning and learning, Conceptual frameworks, Reasoning & Changes, Critical attitude, Theories & Situations, Didactic transposition, Schooling, Professionalization, Psychology & Education, Institutions... read more

...Delighted to have an International Keynote Lecturers Team!

• Emeritus Professor Jean Dhombres (Centre Alexandre Koyré-CNRS-Paris, France)
• Emeritus Professor Patricia Radelet-de Grave (Université Catholique-Louvain, Belgium)
• Emeritus Directeur de Recherche Gérard Vergnaud (Paris-Vincennes S Denis University-CNRS, France)
• Emeritus Professor Laurence Viennot (Paris-Diderot University, France)

• Professor Laurence Maurines (Paris-Sud University, France)
• Professor Annibale Mottana (Roma 3 University/Accademia dei Lincei, Italy)
• Professor Raffaele Pisano (Lille University, France)
• Professor Shahid Rahman (Lille University, France)
• Professor Michael Segre (Chieti University, Italy)
• Professor Kostas Skordoulis (Athens University, Greece)

• Dr. Moira Müller (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

Patronage & Collaborations

• The aim of ISSHPSE is ...

SUMMER SCHOOL - GENERAL AIM

This first International Summer School mainly aims to improve scientific, historical and philosophical techniques of investigations within science teaching in order to make education and foundations of science more interesting, from a theoretical and experimental standpoint. Furthermore, it is well-known that science is an important component of EU cultural heritage and provides the most important explanations for the material world. Recently fewer young people seem to be interested in science and technical subjects. Does the problem lie in wider socio cultural changes such as the ways in which young people in the EU countries now live and wish to shape their lives? Alternatively, is it due to failings within science education itself?

Generally speaking current school science curricula has been developed to prepare students for university and college scientific degrees. Such education does not meet the needs of the large majority of students who will not pursue tertiary studies in science or even science related fields. These students require knowledge of the main ideas and methodologies of science.  What about of cultural process? It seems that the didactics applied to scientific disciplines across Europe have failed to solve the crisis between scientific education and EU social economic development: new teaching methods, changed and new curricula as well as educational goals.

Finally, how can the history and philosophy of sciences assist in solving the crisis in science with regards to education and foundations in Europe? How can a new approach to science education produce reliable knowledge?