8th ICHSSE 2010 - The 8th International Conference for the History of Science in Science Education (8th ICHSSE 2010)

The 8th International Conference for the History of Science in Science Education (8th ICHSSE) will be held in Maresias, a beach in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, from 16th to 19th August, 2010. The conference will be organized by the University of Sao Paulo. The main theme of the conference will be “Learning science and about science through history”.

This is a conference with about 25 speakers, with no parallel sections, which facilitates intensive dialogue and exchange of ideas between attendants. The official language of this Conference is English. Works presented at the 8th ICHSSE will be published in a book which is expected to appear in 2011.

Speakers are invited to submit a final version of their papers for publication. The papers should not exceed 5,000 words. The deadline for submission of papers is October 31, 2010. The contributions, in Word format, should be sent to the Conference e-mail address, mail-AT-hpsst-brazil2010.org.

This conference will be followed by the 1st IHPST Latin American Conference (IHPST-LA), from 19th to 21th August, 2010.