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Developing Critical Thinking in Physics: The Apprenticeship of Critique

By Laurence Viennot , Nicolas Décamp

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Springer
Year
2020
ISBN
9783030437725, 9783030437732
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-43773-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3456726 bytes)
Series
Contributions from Science Education Research 7
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
VII, 142\145
Time added
2021-01-06 05:41:07
Education; Science Education; Teaching and Teacher

Description

This book promotes the effective implementation and development of critical analysis in physics. It focuses on explanatory texts concerning subjects typically dealt with in secondary or higher education and addressed in an academic or popular context. It highlights the general difficulties and obstacles inherent in teaching physics and shows how some tools can help to combine successful criticism and better understanding. The book examines the main reasons to call a text into question and looks at risk factors such as simplifications, story-like explanations and visual analogies. It takes inventory of the benefits and limits of critical analysis and discusses the complex links between conceptual mastery and critical attitude. The book ends by offering tools to activate critical thinking and ways for educators to guide students towards productive critical analysis.

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