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ERIC Number: EJ616973
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0926-7220
How and What Can We Learn from Replicating Historical Experiments? A Case Study.
Hottecke, Dietmar
Science and Education, v9 n4 p343-62 Jul 2000
Argues that historical experiments replicated as closely as possible to the original enable experiences that are intellectual as well as sensual in kind. Demonstrates that learning by replicating makes it possible to learn on different levels of human activity related to mind and body. Introduces a case study of the replication of the kind of electric motor developed by Michael Faraday. (Contains 60 references.) (ASK)
Descriptors: Electricity, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Mechanics (Process), Physics, Science History, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Germany
Note: Special issue: History and Philosophy in German Science Education.