By identifying the rupture in the development of science between the context of discovery and the context of justification, we believe can better understand the domination of transmissive teaching of science in schools and argue for overcoming it. The argument is to recover for the classroom the very strong cultural flame that science carries in its concepts, laws and theories as well as in its own developmental processes. We explore the tradition rooted in Portuguese culture.
Science education; History; Philosophy; Teaching; Culture