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Record Nr.

UNINA9910416094103321

Autore

Viennot Laurence

Titolo

Developing Critical Thinking in Physics : The Apprenticeship of Critique / / by Laurence Viennot, Nicolas Décamp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-43773-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (145 pages)

Collana

Contributions from Science Education Research, , 2213-3623 ; ; 7

Disciplina

530.071

Soggetti

Science education

Teaching

Critical Thinking

Science Education

Teaching and Teacher Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Why critique ? Why physics? -- Chapter 2. Main reasons to call a text into question -- Chapter 3. Risk factors -- Chapter 4. Benefits and limits of a classification -- Chapter 5. Conceptual mastery and critical attitude: complex links -- Chapter 6. Activating criticism without delay -- Chapter 7. An education in critical analysis -- Chapter 8. Critique: a prelude to deeper comprehension -- Appendices A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J. .

Sommario/riassunto

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.