Historical approach in electromagnetic field teaching

Abstract Currently, it is widely accepted that the establishment of the History of Science in the education of general Sciences has been fruitful and productive developing into a better attitude on the students' side, as well as the improved understanding of the methods Science uses. Concerning this issue, a didactic and pedagogical training has been undertaken with a group of senior students in their last academic year. The experiment has been developed on the electromagnetic and the magnetic induction fields by means of a historical sequencing of discoveries likewise theoretical interpretations and judgements of the first part of the XIX century. Once the quasi experimental research with pre-test and postest was carried out, the results show that, in the case of those students who followed a historical sequencing, they have improved more than the control group in the areas of the recognition of Scientists' work, in the understanding of the Scientific Methodology and the knowledge acquisition.