Cover illustration A new approach to teaching and learning mechanics

A new approach to teaching and learning mechanics / Axel Sander Westra - [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2006 - Doctoral thesis Utrecht University


Abstract

In this thesis a research project is described that took place from 2000 until 2004 in the Centre for Science and Mathematics Education in Utrecht. It involves a didactical research into the teaching and learning of an introduction to mechanics for fourth grade pre-university level students (Dutch: 4 VWO). Many people consider mechanics as an important part of physics, well worth teaching and learning, but also as a topic in which many difficulties in learning and understanding surface. The aims of the research are to contribute to a further understanding of these difficulties and to point in the direction of possible solutions.

keywords: design research, mechanics education, explanatory scheme, problem posing


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