In 1820 the Danish scientist Hans Christian \u00d8rsted discovered the relationship between electricity
\nand magnetism by his famous wire-compass experiment. \u00d8rsted was one of the foremost scientists of
\nthe nineteenth century, and he was also one of the leading figures in Denmark in the 19th century
\nwith a vital influence in the fields of aesthetics, philosophy, education, politics and religion. In
\nthis paper the work and life of \u00d8rsted is placed in a school context with the rationale to
\naccentuate that learning of physics needs to be accompanied by learning about physics, its history,
\nits interrelations with culture, worldviews, and commerce, its philosophical assumptions, its
\nepistemology and methodology. Narratives are introduced as a pedagogical support to this approach
\nand two concrete examples of teaching sequences centred on the work and life of \u00d8rsted is described
\nin grade 7 and grade 9 classes, respectively. A prominent feature of the sequences was that all the
\nactivities of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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