La controversia Pasteur vs. Pouchet sobre la generación espontánea: un recurso para la formación inicial del profesorado en la naturaleza de la ciencia desde un enfoque reflexivo

Abstract: The Pasteur-Pouchet controversy about spontaneous generation is presented as an interesting story from the History of Science to learn about the Nature of Science (NOS). The aim is to use this controversy for addressing some NOS issues in science education from an explicit and reflective approach. The didactic proposal is focused on the pre-service Secondary Education science teachers training in NOS and its teaching. Attention is given to both epistemic and non-epistemic aspects in the text of the controversy and the NOS questions asked. In addition, finally some methodological reco...