A new approach to teaching and learning mechanics FI Scientific Library, nr. 54. Westra, A. S. (2006) 317 pp. |
https://www.fisme.science.uu.nl/publicaties/literatuur/2007_westra_a_0-320.pdf Abstract A new approach to teaching and learning mechanics. 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. |