Making sense of Physics in the first year of study

Details Making sense of Physics in the first year of study Making sense of Physics in the first year of study

1999-11-26

arxiv.org/abs/physics/9911071v1

Learning and Instruction, Volume 12, Pages 493-507 (2002)

Physics

Physics Education

11 pages

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We address the question "How do students make sense of Physics from the point of view of constituting physics knowledge?". A phenomenographic study is described as a result of which we present six qualitatively different ways in which students experience the first year of Physics. The variation is analysed in terms of the structure of experience, the nature of knowlege and an ethical aspect related to the identification of authority. Three of these ways of experiencing the first year are considered to be unproductive in terms of making sense of physics, while the other three support, to an increasing degree, the formation of a well-grounded physics knowledge object. Implications for practice are considered.

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