In this article, we investigate the conceptions of education in the sciences at the threshold of the 20th century, by means of the vision of a theoretician of the New School movement in Europe, the German Kerscheinsteiner, who investigated and argued for teaching from his pedagogical practice. For this, it we tried to analyze the main conceptions concerning the teaching of sciences present in the work of the author, entitled "Essence and value of scientific-natural education". Taking as the context of the analysis, the social-economic and political factors in which the educational process would be inserted in the related period, as a means to understanding the contribution that the theoretician brought for the understanding of the importance of teaching as a whole in the formation of the human being. The diversity of ideas on education, defended by the author, made possible important reflections concerning the participation of the pupil as an active subject in the process of teaching learning in the sciences.
Science Teaching; Education; New School
