Joan Borg Marks – författare

This book presents the most up-to-date research contributions focusing on progress in the field of physics education. It provides researches and results that are based on the most relevant matters in physics teacher education and how these matters can be improved for the satisfaction of both teachers and learners. The work is the by-product of the collaboration between GIREP (the International Research Group on Physics Teaching) and the University of Malta. The contributing authors present close examinations of the following topics: ICT and multimedia in teacher education; experiments and laboratory work in teacher education; the role of quantum mechanics in teaching and learning physics; formal, non-formal and informal aspects of physics education at the primary level; strategies for pre-service physics teacher education at all levels; and in-service teacher professional learning strategies. The editors hope that many different stakeholders within scientific academia will find something of value in this compilation of the current most advanced ideas in physics education.

This book focuses on some important aspects of Physics Education: the  role of metaphors in Physics teaching and learning, the connections between Physics and Mathematics, the interaction of young children with Physics at the primary level, and  recent developments in teacher education in the USA.

Contributors present their research related to:

• Preparing teachers for TPACK (technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge) and laboratory work.

• Developing and evaluating teacher PCK (pedagogical content knowledge) in Quantum Mechanics.

• In-service Physics teacher education for early childhood and primary levels.

• Pre-service Physics teacher education at all levels.

• In-service Physics teacher professional learning for second and higher-level education.

Chapters in this book inevitably look into how Physics teacher education is organizedin different countries.

 Suggestions are offered for possible ways of supporting Physics teachers’ learning.

An emphasis is made on the much-needed measurements of the effectiveness of different teaching strategies that improve teaching for learning.

All this should help professionals, researchers, and pre-service, as well as in-service teachers to get acquainted with the most recent research contributions in the field.