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