Developing Critical Thinking in Physics: The Apprenticeship of Critique (1st ed. 2020) (Contributions from Science Education Research #7)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2020
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9783030437732
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783030437725
- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 08/03/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Science, Study Guides, Education
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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