Innovative Research Based Educational Proposals in Physics Education
A special issue of Education Sciences (ISSN 2227-7102). This special issue belongs to the section "STEM Education".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 28391
Special Issue Editor
Interests: research-based educational paths in classical and modern physics; ICT and multimedia to overcome conceptual knots and learning difficulties; innovative experiments and lab methods for teaching/learning physics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Special Issue is dedicated to research-based proposals to improve physics teaching and learning in the framework of content research. We are particularly thinking of research-based educational paths, teaching intervention modules and tools, new methods for the laboratory or the use of multimedia for learning physics.
The Special Issue will be organized in three sections, with proposals respectively for kindergarten and primary school, secondary school and university.
Contributions are particularly welcome on new strategies and methods improving conceptual learning, helping to overcome conceptual knots in classical physics topics, new experiments or new ways of working in labs, in conducting experiments in specific contexts, new ways in which multimedia tools allow the overcoming of conceptual knots and support learning, evidence on ways to produce competence related to physics identity and didactic proposals on modern and contemporary physics (e.g., on Einstein’s relativity, quantum mechanics, superconductivity, or high-energy physics).
Proposals must be research-based, and evidence of their effectiveness in learning as the outcome of specific implementation must be presented.
The suggested structure for the papers is the following: an introduction to the problem addressed with extensive literature analysis and clear identification of the aims of the contribution and didactic proposal; the theoretical framework for research and the characteristics of the research, the research questions; the rationale of the educational proposal and the referent methods for its building; the sample and the way of the implementation of the proposal; methods of data collection and data analysis; discussion of the results; and conclusions.
Abstracts that arrive by July 2022 will be submitted to the scientific committee, and the index of the Special Issue will be constituted. Articles must be received by December 2022 and will be subjected to double-blind peer review.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Marisa Michelini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- educational paths
- experiments, tools from content research in physics education
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