id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_enfr5mjgzrdfvnra5lbcfc5mhe Igal Galili Promotion of Cultural Content Knowledge Through the Use of the History and Philosophy of Science 2011 34 .pdf application/pdf 18318 1511 52 historical changes in physics knowledge with regard to several particular concepts relevant incorrect conceptions from the history in the process of knowledge construction by students and the advantages of such use in a special form of presentation—historical excurse. between individuals to the history of science (Tsou 2006) and create the important perspective of relevancy of the HPS based learning materials. This pragmatic view suggests considering specific historical ideas relevant to the contents presented in a regular science class. The excurses had to address conceptual points of the physics curriculum, especially important for understanding, teaching and learning certain subject One can visualize (Fig. 6) the benefit of the CCK to the Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK, Shulman 1986)—the central concept of science education. In a way, education recapitulates the history of physics following the same path of development: from the preNewtonian all-inclusive concept of mass-gravity-weight at students of earlier ages (Galili ./cache/work_enfr5mjgzrdfvnra5lbcfc5mhe.pdf ./txt/work_enfr5mjgzrdfvnra5lbcfc5mhe.txt