Overview
- Provides a systematic approach to analysing explanations in physics
- Shows the value of a critically alert approach to science texts
- Goes beyond basic advice about critical thinking
Part of the book series: Contributions from Science Education Research (CFSE, volume 7)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- critical thinking in Education
- critical analysis in physics
- Education of physics
- science texts
- physics teachers
- common reasoning in physics
- questionable explanations in physics
- Early activation of criticism
- Psycho-cognitive factors
- Educating to critical analysis
- terms involved in the explanation
- Classroom management
- Critical thinking in physics
- Flaws in physics explanations
- Risk factors in physics explanations
- Teacher education on critical analysis
- Echo explanations
- Linear causal reasoning
- Simplifications in physics
- Conceptual mastery and critical attitude
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Laurence Viennot is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Paris, in the Laboratory of Matter and Complex Systems. After a few years of research in astrophysics, she turned to the didactics of physics, of which she is one of the pioneers at the international level. She was a member of the first board of European Science Education Research Association. Among her research themes, common reasoning in physics and the development and evaluation of teaching sequences in physics occupy a major place. She has received two international medals (IUPAPE and GIREP). Her current research focuses on the development of critical thinking in physics students.
After having defended a thesis on the interstellar medium, worked on turbulence and taught for a few years in high school, Nicolas Décamp is now a lecturer at the Physics Department of the University of Paris. He is in charge of the master's degree in physics teaching and conductsresearch at the André Revuz didactics laboratory, in particular on the links between the history of science and physics didactics and on the development of critical thinking in physics students.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Developing Critical Thinking in Physics
Book Subtitle: The Apprenticeship of Critique
Authors: Laurence Viennot, Nicolas Décamp
Series Title: Contributions from Science Education Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43773-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43772-5Published: 14 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43775-6Published: 14 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43773-2Published: 13 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2213-3623
Series E-ISSN: 2213-3631
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 142
Number of Illustrations: 55 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Critical Thinking