Teaching Einsteinian physics in schools : an essential guide for teachers in training and practice
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Teaching Einsteinian physics in schools : an essential guide for teachers in training and practice
Routledge, 2021
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In our world today, scientists and technologists speak one language of reality. Everyone else, whether they be prime ministers, lawyers, or primary school teachers speak an outdated Newtonian language of reality.
While Newton saw time and space as rigid and absolute, Einstein showed that time is relative - it depends on height and velocity - and that space can stretch and distort. The modern Einsteinian perspective represents a significant paradigm shift compared with the Newtonian paradigm that underpins most of the school education today. Research has shown that young learners quickly access and accept Einsteinian concepts and the modern language of reality. Students enjoy learning about curved space, photons, gravitational waves, and time dilation; often, they ask for more!
A consistent education within the Einsteinian paradigm requires rethinking of science education across the entire school curriculum, and this is now attracting attention around the world. This book brings together a coherent set of chapters written by leading experts in the field of Einsteinian physics education. The book begins by exploring the fundamental concepts of space, time, light, and gravity and how teachers can introduce these topics at an early age. A radical change in the curriculum requires new learning instruments and innovative instructional approaches. Throughout the book, the authors emphasise and discuss evidence-based approaches to Einsteinian concepts, including computer- based tools, geometrical methods, models and analogies, and simplified mathematical treatments.
Teaching Einsteinian Physics in Schools is designed as a resource for teacher education students, primary and secondary science teachers, and for anyone interested in a scientifically accurate description of physical reality at a level appropriate for school education.
目次
Section 1: Motivations and needs to teach Einsteinian physics. Chapter 1. Intuition in Einsteinian physics. Chapter 2. Time for changing paradigms in science and in education. Chapter 3. The difficult birth of quantum physics. Chapter 4. The difficult birth of gravitational wave astronomy. Section 2: Instructional approaches to teach Einsteinian physics. Special Relativity. Chapter 5 - Dynamics first - a novel approach to relativity. Chapter 6. Event diagrams - supporting student reasoning in special relativity through thought experiments. Chapter 7. Introducing relativity on rotated graph paper. Chapter 8. Pushing the boundaries of Einsteinian physics education using virtual reality technology. General Relativity. Chapter 9. Standing on the shoulders of giants - how historical perspectives on gravity can inform modern physics education. Chapter 10. Models and analogies in teaching general relativity. Chapter 11. Gravitational lensing as a focal point for teaching general relativity. Chapter 12. Introducing the geometric concepts of general relativity with sector models. Chapter 13. Where do gravitational waves come from, and how can we detect more? . Chapter 14. Using the language of gravity to teach about space, time, and matter in general relativity. Quantum Physics. Chapter 15. Introducing quantum physics with toy photons. Chapter 16. Teaching quantum physics to middle and high school students using phasor-wheels. Chapter 17 - David Blair: Gold, Einstein's Metal. Chapter 18. Patterns and atoms: the structure of atomic matter. Section 3: Introducing Einsteinian physics around the world. Chapter 19. Designing learning resources and investigating student motivation and learning in general relativity and quantum physics in Norway. Chapter 20. Towards a comprehensive general relativity course for secondary school. Chapter 21. Australia: Einstein-First: modernising the school physics curriculum in Western Australia and beyond. Chapter 22. Scotland: The introduction of Einsteinian physics to the upper secondary school physics curriculum in Scotland: experiences and observations. Chapter 23. Netherlands: Towards a study module on general relativity in the Netherlands. Chapter 24. Czech Republic: Introducing general relativity without special relativity - classroom experience from the Czech Republic. Chapter 25. South Korea: Toward understanding Einsteinian physics education: relativity education as an exemplar
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