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View SchemaLearning physics in context: a study of student learning about electricity and magnetism
| Authors | N. D. Finkelstein |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0505092 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0505092 |
| DOI | 10.1080/09500690500069491 |
Abstract
This paper re-centres the discussion of student learning in physics to focus on context. In order to do so, a theoretically-motivated understanding of context is developed. Given a well-defined notion of context, data from a novel university class in electricity and magnetism are analyzed to demonstrate the central and inextricable role of context in student learning. This work sits within a broader effort to create and analyze environments which support student learning in the sciences
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