Contribution of History of Science to professional development of university teachers

Abstract

In this paper examines the role that acquires the History of Chemistry (HC) in training program chemistry teachers on didactic of science, who had as core the replica of scientific instruments and experiments of eighteenth century, when they studied the chemical change. The research methodology was inspired by action research, where teachers who participated in the training program were organized into a «Professional Development Community of Teachers (PRODEC)», which initially focused on the knowledge of chemistry (from HC) then they developed a more complex training in didactic of science.