Developing Critical Thinking in Physics
The Apprenticeship of Critique
Laurence Viennot author Nicolas Décamp author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Published:14th Jul '20
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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.
ISBN: 9783030437725
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 454g
142 pages
1st ed. 2020