THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY IN MUSLIM CIVILISATION, FOR EDUCATING MOROCCAN FUTUR SCIENCE TEACHERS TO SCIENTIFIC THINKING IN HARMONY WITH THEIR CULTURAL IDENTITY

Abstract

Our aim in this paper is to show how we are acting with our students for developping their scientific thinking while trying to avoid that the facination for science their mind a feeling of strangeness and alienation, showing that it remains an universal production which has a history and which scalable, showing them that the science it is a type of thought distinct of the religious one, and using their introduction in the history of astronomy in muslim civilisation as a springboard for initiating them to astronomy. In this paper we describe those goals and the content we teach to acheave them. In the training entity here described We try to show how it is possible to support the appeal that religion has on young people nowadays in our country to root them in scientific thought, and also to highlight the way in which it has been possible for Muslims to live their faith and in the same time to appropriate and develop scientific heritage of previous civilizations.

Keywords

• History of astronomy,civilisation,scientific thinking,cultural identity

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