Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), a human: biographical approach and proposal to teacher trainning

• Autor(a) principal: Queiroz, Daniel de Medeiros
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Hidalgo, Juliana Mesquita
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Caderno Brasileiro de Ensino de Física (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/fisica/article/view/2175-7941.2019v36n2p457

Since the last decades of the twentieth century, it has been given importance to the insertion of the History of Science into scientific education. In parallel, difficulties of a historiographical nature regarding the understanding of what History of Science is and its writing are considered limiting factors for such insertion. Essentially laudatory and anachronistic histories, narratives intended to present "heroes" of science or to establish the paternity of scientific discoveries are still present in scientific education. Contrasting, we built a very brief biographical fragment of Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) for teacher trainning. Being contrary to a cumulative and linear description of the beginning, middle, chronological end and teleological purpose that characterized the biographical genre, both in the History as in the History of Science, we (re)interpreted a past with articulations between the life of the biography subject and his contexts – individual and society in dialectics –, facing the unsolvable tension between a representative being and a unique being. This fragment introduces historiography of science to pre-service Physics teachers, while allowing “to humanize” Pascal under the École des Annales’ aegis and its perspective of history as problem, giving rise to discussions of philosophical content. This article presents the biographical fragment of Blaise Pascal, as well as suggests its socialization in a proposal of didactic sequence to pre-service physics teachers trainning.