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Physics Education
Physics Didactics
Physics Education Research
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[email protected]
+ Natl. Resource Center for Physics Education
fysik.org
Ann-Marie Pendrill
Prof. Atomic Physics, U. Gothenburg
Post-doc UW, Seattle + Oxford (78-80)
Teaching first-year engineering physics students,
100-120 students
Using FCI, pre-post
Peer instruction, using
"poor man's clickers" = colored papers
in large lecture hall
+ supervising CUL - students.
Teachers combining school work with PhD studies
ICPE - International Commission of
Physics Education
Chair: Pratibha Jolly, India
(Girep, Reims, 2010)
Elena Sassi, Napoli, ICPE-member:
Distinguish between:
Physics
Physics Education
Physics Education Research
Object of study?
Pupils - different age groups
Student teachers
University students
Teachers - professional development
Scholarship of teaching and learning
Didactics for Physicists?
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Methods and tools that can be used directly
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Conceptual understanding
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Nature of science
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Outreach
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Something the cat brought in ...?
FND, 16-17 nov, Kristianstad
-Round-table discussion,
Teacher educators in physics
Vilken kunskap behöver blivande lärare få
möjlighet att utveckla under sin utbildning? Vilka
krav ställer detta på lärarutbildningen? Skolämnet
fysik är något annat än den akademiska disciplinen.
T.ex. behandlas i skolans kursplaner fysikens
relation till samhället i övrigt och fysikens bidrag
till ställningstagande i samhällsfrågor. Vilken fysik
bör man fokusera på i lärarutbildningen?
Diskuteras perspektiv på fysikämnet och i så fall
vilka? Filosofiska och vetenskapsteoretiska
perspektiv? Sociologiska perspektiv? Historiska
Students' competencies of an adequate
understanding of measurement uncertainties
Julia Glomski and Burkhard Priemer
German education standards:
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analyse data
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document results
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assess the validity
Develop normative model, various levels of
competence + standardized test instrument
Nature of Science authentically, explicity and
reflexively in a science lab for school students
Stefan Uhlmann and Burkhard Priemer
Experimental work at school and at research inst.
Communicating with scientists: physics content
and ways of gaining knowledge
See, discuss, learn about real scientific
experiments
200 pupils, age 16-18
Using complexity thinking and network theory in
Modeling of Higher Education Student Trajectories
in
Physics
and
Engineering
Physics
Jonas Forsman
Challenge - students drop out - why ?
Complex network of causes and influences
Attitudes, identity, social situation.
Aim for non-linear model of student retention
So far, no account of students pre-knowledge (or
knowledge formation)
Making meaning in physics in relation to attaining
fluency in diciplinary discourse:
From exoplanets to semiotic resources in the
astronomy learning environment.
Urban Eriksson
Lic astronomi + finish in Phys. Ed. Research
Building on John Airey's work on representations
What is the importance of
teacher enthusiasm?
ownership of the content?
What challenges do you see in
sharing your enthusiasm?
What representations do you
expect to be important?