Science and religion: reflections on the textbooks of history of mathematics and graduation of teacher. / Ciência e religião: reflexões sobre os livros de história da matemática e a formação do professor

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2010

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This research is inserted in the thematic of the graduation of math teachers. It presents a study about the relation between science and religion present in the books History of math, by Carl B. Boyer, and Introduction to the history of math, by Howard Eves, the most used in the graduation course. Having in sight that the current teaching proposals emphasizes that the students must be formed to become civilians, it considers that the way this relation appears in the available material doesnt contribute much for it to occur. The thesis stared from the idea that the history of sciences, in the formation of math teachers, can give support to a scientific education that shows the existing complexity between the religious thought and the scientific thought. For this to be made, episodes of the scientific revolution caused by thinkers like Kepler, Galileu, Newton, and Leibniz were presented. The study emphasizes that the scientific education must include a discussion about the nature of the scientific thought and its relation with other aspects of culture, showing the existence of discontinuations and revolutions, as the current historiography proposes. For the enrichment of the discussionshorizon this work shows arguments involving social and ethical aspects and values, in spite of forming a civilian. Also shows the tension between the more technical formation of a teacher and the most wide formation.

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história da ciência history of science relação entre a ciência e a religião formação de professores mathematical education relation between science and religion teachers graduation livros de história da matemática mathematics history books educação matemática

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