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Teaching-in-context of Maxwell's displacement current: What do professors and students perceive?

It has been acknowledged that teaching fundamental scientific concepts in their original context of discovery could help with the students' conceptual understanding as ‘historical thinking often parallels their own’ and as ‘it highlights the contrast between thinking then, and now, bringing into a sharper focus the nature and achievement of our current conceptions’ [1]. Closely in line with this idea, it has been suggested that presenting Maxwell's equations in historical context could ‘open up the students’ interest in the subject and beyond' [2]. A survey undertaken with students at the first author's university indicated that they shared this perception [3]. While Maxwell's electromagnetic theory is a founding theory of modern physical science, the introduction of displacement current by him formed the foundation of the electromagnetic theory. Thus the discussion-in-context of this concept could possibly ‘help students to contemplate innovation and creativity’ [4].