Laurence Viennot – författare

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This book promotes the effective implementation and development of critical analysis in physics. The book ends by offering tools to activate critical thinking and ways for educators to guide students towards productive critical analysis.

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.

This book promotes the effective implementation and development of critical analysis in physics. The book ends by offering tools to activate critical thinking and ways for educators to guide students towards productive critical analysis.

Read this book if you care about students really understanding physics and getting genuine intellectual satisfaction from doing so. Read it too if you fear that this goal is out of reach – you may be surprised! Laurence Viennot here shows ways to deal with the awkward fact that common sense thinking is often not the same as scientific thinking. She analyses examples of frequent and widespread errors and confusions, which provide a real eye-opener for the teacher. More than that, she shows ways to avoid and overcome them. The book argues against over-emphasis on “fun” applications, demonstrating that students also enjoy and value clear thinking.The book has three parts: • making sense of special scientific ways of reasoning (words, images, functions)• making connections between very different topics, each illuminating the other• simplifying, looking for consistency and avoiding incoherent over-simplificationThe book is enhanced with supplementary online materials that will allow readers to further expand their teaching or research interests and think about them more deeply.

Read this book if you care about students really understanding physics and getting genuine intellectual satisfaction from doing so. Read it too if you fear that this goal is out of reach – you may be surprised! Laurence Viennot here shows ways to deal with the awkward fact that common sense thinking is often not the same as scientific thinking. She analyses examples of frequent and widespread errors and confusions, which provide a real eye-opener for the teacher. More than that, she shows ways to avoid and overcome them. The book argues against over-emphasis on “fun” applications, demonstrating that students also enjoy and value clear thinking.The book has three parts: • making sense of special scientific ways of reasoning (words, images, functions)• making connections between very different topics, each illuminating the other• simplifying, looking for consistency and avoiding incoherent over-simplificationThe book is enhanced with supplementary online materials that will allow readers to further expand their teaching or research interests and think about them more deeply.