Developing Critical Thinking in Physics: The Apprenticeship of Critique

✍ Scribed by Laurence Viennot, Nicolas Décamp

Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Springer
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 145
Series: Contributions from Science Education Research 7
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-vii
Why Critique? Why Physics? (Laurence Viennot, Nicolas Décamp)....Pages 1-9
Main Reasons to Call a Text into Question (Laurence Viennot, Nicolas Décamp)....Pages 11-25
Risk Factors (Laurence Viennot, Nicolas Décamp)....Pages 27-56
Benefits and Limits of a Classification (Laurence Viennot, Nicolas Décamp)....Pages 57-64
Conceptual Mastery and Critical Attitude: Complex Links (Laurence Viennot, Nicolas Décamp)....Pages 65-73
Activating Criticism Without Delay (Laurence Viennot, Nicolas Décamp)....Pages 75-81
An Education in Critical Analysis (Laurence Viennot, Nicolas Décamp)....Pages 83-93
Critique: A Prelude to Deeper Comprehension (Laurence Viennot, Nicolas Décamp)....Pages 95-98
Back Matter ....Pages 99-142

✦ Subjects

Education; Science Education; Teaching and Teacher Education; Critical Thinking

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