Developing Critical Thinking in Physics: The Apprenticeship of Critique

di Laurence Viennot (Autore)

Nicolas Décamp (Autore)

Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020

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.

• Autore: Laurence Viennot, Nicolas Décamp
• Editore: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Collana: Contributions from Science Education Research
• Anno: 2020
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 142 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9783030437725

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