The humanities in the teaching of "hard sciences"

Abstract

The main objective of this article is to describe, with reasons and examples, that historicism should be taken into consideration in the teaching of hard sciences or natural sciences as a way to increase the motivation and need to study them. The lack of motivation to learn hard sciences in different educational levels leads to a low admission of student interested in studying them at universities, which is detrimental to the training of scientists all over the world. Several methodological resources have been developed to alleviate the situation, but there are no notable improvements in this regard. International experiences have shown that inserting the History of Science, especially the humanistic one, can be useful to humanize the teaching of hard sciences. This subject leads to an increase in the motivational levels of students. Even though these studies are scarce and they not were generalized with the speed required.