Title | Teaching Physics [electronic resource] / edited by Laurence Viennot |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2003 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0121-2 |
Descript | XV, 235 p. online resource |
1 / Watersheds -- 1. How and What to Spotlight -- 2. How Much Should be Explained -- 3. Images: Are they always useful? -- 4. Experiments: Are they supposed to help? -- Appendix 1: Some General Intentions Are Very Similar in the Various Syllabuses -- Appendix 2: Why the Pinhole Camera is no Longer on the Syllabus -- 2 / Contact, friction and propulsion -- 1. Laws that Run Counter to Common Sense -- 2. A Method of Spotlighting the Basics -- 3. A Way of Spotlighting Friction: goals and difficulties -- 4. First Elements of Static Friction: step by step -- 5. Analysing the Sequence: lines of attention -- 6. Evaluation of the Sequence with Students -- 7. Reactions of Trainee Teachers -- 8. What Conclusion Should We Draw? -- Appendix 1: The Technique of Fragmented Diagrams -- Appendix 2: Two Situations for Studying Kinetic Friction -- Appendix 3: Trainee Teachersโ Comments on the Sequence -- 3 / Pressure in Fluids in the Presence of Gravity -- 1. Questions About the Merits of a Microscopic Approach -- 2. The Macroscopic Level: what quantities โhave to beโ? -- 3. Fluid Statics: common ideas among students -- 4. A Proposal for the Teaching of Fluid Statics -- 5. Analysing the Sequence: lines of attention -- 6. Evaluation of the Sequence with Students -- 7. Teachersโ Reactions -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix: Main Results of the External Evaluation -- 4 / Superposition of Electric Fields -- 1. Interaction at a Distance and Superposition -- 2. Charges, Fields and Superposition: selected aspects -- 3. Superposition and Causality: common forms of reasoning -- 4. Elements of a Teaching Sequence -- 5. Analysing the Sequence: lines of attention -- 6. Evaluation of the Sequence -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Contents Previously Taught to Students Questioned in the Preliminary Survey -- Appendix 2: Electrostatics and Electric Circuits Disconnected: the field in wires -- 5 / Superposition of Waves and Optical Imaging -- 1. Choosing a Model -- 2. Common Difficulties and โSpotlightingโ of the Content -- 3. Analysing the Proposal: some elements -- 4. Reactions of In-Service or Trainee Teachers -- 5. Conclusion -- 6 / Colour Phenomena -- 1. A Topic at a Crossroads -- 2. Colour Phenomena and Light: the chosen approach -- 3. Common Ideas: too exclusive a linkage -- 4. A Proposed Sequence -- 5. More Detail, Following the Lines of Attention -- 6. Evaluation of the Sequence -- 7. Teachersโ Reactions -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Additive and Subtractive Mixing -- Appendix 2: Aspects of Knowledge Whose Acquisition is Evaluated One Year after the Sequence -- Conclusion -- Index of Names