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- Title
High schools and sciences (1836-1860): A study on the process of creation of the disciplines of physical and natural sciences in Portuguese lyceums.
- Authors
da Silva BEATO, Carlos Alberto
- Abstract
This study aims to make the history of science subjects in Portuguese high schools in the period between 1836 and 1860, i.e. the first twenty-five years of their existence. Based primarily on archive material, the work unfolds in three parts dealing respectively with the introduction of the disciplines of physics, chemistry and natural history in high schools, particularly in Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra; the science teachers, their training and procedural processes; and the science classes in high schools, their material conditions and available equipment, textbooks and programs and pedagogies used. It was concluded that the process of introduction of science subjects in high schools was a very controversial process, especially in Lisbon's high school, where this occurred only at a later date, nearly at the end of the period considered in this study. Another aspect that is emphasized is that although the methods and procedures varied and with them, also the demand for skills over the study period, all teachers and candidates for the post were the possessors of top-level academic training. The materials provided to equip the laboratories and offices of the science classes did not always meet the teachers needs or wishes, which was a restrictive factor for the programs, which were defined locally, nor did they meet the pedagogical practices. In what textbooks are concerned it was found that most of them were in French, with encyclopedic features, which aside the language barrier, gave each teacher the possibility to design a program according to their preferences.
- Subjects
LYCEUMS; SECONDARY education; SCIENCE education (Secondary)
- Publication
E-Journal of Portuguese History, 2019, Vol 17, Issue 2, p288
- ISSN
1645-6432
- Publication type
Abstract