Historical narratives in ESO and Baccalaureate textbooks. Analysis of two founding myths of chemistry
Vol. 114 No. 3 (2018), History of Chemistry
Vol. 114 No. 3 (2018)

Historical narratives in ESO and Baccalaureate textbooks. Analysis of two founding myths of chemistry

History of Chemistry
Published 2018-09-10
Luis Moreno Martínez
Instituto de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia López Piñero, Universitat de València / Grupo de Didáctica e Historia de la Real Sociedad Española de Química y la Real Sociedad Española de Física
M. Araceli Calvo Pascual
Facultad de Formación de Profesorado y Educación, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid / Grupo de Didáctica e Historia de la Real Sociedad Española de Química y la Real Sociedad Española de Física
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History of Chemistry, Teextbooks, Secondary Education, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Friedrich Wöhler.
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Abstract

In 2018 the famous portrait of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and Marie Anne Paulze by Jacques Louis David (1788), which is an iconic picture of the foundation of modern chemistry, turns 230 years old. Also, it has been 190 years since the synthesis of urea by Wöhler in 1828, which is one of the most important foundational moments of organic chemistry. Starting from these anniversaries, this paper analyzes their presence in Secondary Education Chemistry textbooks; pointing out how these educational materials have neglected the perspectives and research results provided by historians of science.

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