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About the Journal
NATURALMENTE Scienza was born in 2020 as a digital and paper magazine, but it has a long history because it collects the heritage of NATURALMENTE, a quarterly magazine conceived in 1987 by Enrico Pappalettere and Vincenzo Terreni, science teachers at the Liceo 'XXV aprile' in Pontedera, with the aim of creating an "Bollettino di informazione degli insegnanti di Scienze Naturali”, which in its maturity became "Fatti e trame delle Scienze". For almost thirty years, until it was closed down, the printed edition had a large and valid group of collaborators, researchers, teachers, journalists and science enthusiasts, who ensured the continuity and quantitative and qualitative growth of the offer.
Since 2009, NATURALMENTE has been flanked by the website www.naturalmentescienza.it, with the aim of widening the readership, broadening the horizons and enabling a broader and more continuous reflection than is possible with the paper publication alone. The magazine NATURALMENTE lives on in the website, where all published issues can be found.
Enrico Pappalettere is also responsible for the idea of the NATURALMENTE books, the 'Finestre' series published by ETS Pisa. This is how Enrico defined them: "Stops that unexpectedly appear at the crossroads of the many varied and eclectic paths taken by the magazine Naturalmente. They are like windows opened by the most varied explorers to observe and describe the most varied panoramas, in terms of nature and scale, revealed by the study of the facts and plots of science".
In 2020, a group of loyal NATURALMENTE contributors, Giambattista Bello, Maria Castelli, Fabio Fantini, Luciano Luciani, Lucia Stelli, Vincenzo Terreni and Maria Turchetto, decided to give the magazine a new lease of life, calling it NATURALLYMENTE Scienza and putting together the first issue (no. 0). Today, thanks to the support of the Pisa publishing house ETS and the commitment of the Association "AMICI DI NATURALMENTE SCIENZA APS", the magazine is back in print and digital form. No. 0 can be downloaded free of charge together with the first two issues of 2020 and No. 1 of 2021, which inaugurates the paper format alongside the digital one.
The disciplinary area in which the magazine is inserted is scientific education, philosophy of science, sociology of science. The magazine's main objectives are the promotion of scientific knowledge and reflection on the impact that the diffusion of scientific culture has on social relations. In this sense it is not limited to a "dissemination" activity - certainly present in some articles and columns - but it deepens and stimulates a discussion on the consequences - epistemological, philosophical, political, social - of scientific knowledge and its developments. This is a specific and original approach that has promoted interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration at an international level. The intent is in fact to transmit the values and attitudes that are the basis of scientific thought: non-dogmatism, fallibility and therefore the provisional nature of theories, the possibility of control and, consequently, the confirmation or correction of ideas , the applicability of knowledge, for social and individual improvement.
The magazine also wishes to involve younger minds to activate that cognitive conflict which, by increasing curiosity and awareness of the fluidity of knowledge, stimulates study, critical reflection, favors the overcoming of some misconceptions and preconceptions about scientific disciplines, which, despite their limitations and errors, they represent the best system for making informed and responsible choices. The magazine also presents itself as a qualified interlocutor for updating and training for teachers of scientific disciplines and for cultural operators who act, in general, in the field of scientific training.
OBJECTIVES OF THE MAGAZINE
The magazine's main objectives are the promotion of scientific knowledge and reflection on the impact that the diffusion of scientific culture has on social relations. In this sense it is not limited to a "dissemination" activity - certainly present in some articles and columns - but it deepens and stimulates a discussion on the consequences - epistemological, philosophical, political, social - of scientific knowledge and its developments. This is a specific and original approach that has promoted interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration at an international level. The intent is in fact to transmit the values and attitudes that are the basis of scientific thought: non-dogmatism, fallibility and therefore the provisional nature of theories, the possibility of control and, consequently, the confirmation or correction of ideas , the applicability of knowledge, for social and individual improvement.
The magazine also wishes to involve younger minds to activate that cognitive conflict which, by increasing curiosity and awareness of the fluidity of knowledge, stimulates study, critical reflection, favors the overcoming of some misconceptions and preconceptions about scientific disciplines, which, despite their limitations and errors, they represent the best system for making informed and responsible choices.
The magazine also presents itself as a qualified interlocutor for updating and training for teachers of scientific disciplines and for cultural operators who act, in general, in the field of scientific training.
