That's a very broad question. There is indeed a point where the
histories of science and education meet, and there is a community of
historians of (science) education and historians of science
(education) and associated international literature.
In the aforementioned meeting point you can find scholars such as John
L. Rudolph for 20th-century American science, Antonio Garcia-Belmar,
Jose R. Bertomeu and Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, for 19th-century
French chemistry, Kathy Olesko for 19th-century German physics, or
Bruno Belhoste for 19th-century mathematics. I am myself a contributor
to the field, in the area of 19th-century French, English and Spanish
physics.
There are some relevant international histories of science education
which are useful, although their focus is often institutional or
sociological, and in certain cases this work needs to be updated. An
example is Adam Green's 'Education and State Formation' (1990).
There's much empirical work available for many national cases,
including the British, French, German, American, Spanish, etc. But,
unfortunately, communication between historians of science and
historians of education is commonly not as dynamic as it could be.
If I can help with more specific questions let me know off-list.
Josep
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science teaching / science education?
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> I'm aware of books such as Dorothy Mabel Turner's History of Science
Teaching in England (1927) and have seen reference to DeBoer's A
History of Ideas in Science Education (1991) for the US.
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> Jon
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> Dr Jon Agar
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> Editor, British Journal for the History of Science
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