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View SchemaEnergy flow lines as light paths: a didactical analysis (Energiestromlinien als Lichtwege: Eine didaktische Analyse)
| Authors | Martin Erik Horn |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0603080 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0603080 |
| Journal | published in German in: Anja Pitton (Hrsg.): Relevanz fachdidaktischer Forschungsergebnisse fuer die Lehrerbildung, Beitraege zur Jahrestagung der GDCP in Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-8258-8714-6, LIT-Verlag, Muenster 2005, S. 463 - 465 |
Abstract
Analyses of interviews with secondary school students about their conceptions of light at the University of Potsdam indicate that numerous students have a deterministic view of light. With regard to these results the model of energy flow lines, which has been discussed recently in the didactical literature, is of special interest. Following this model, light is presumed to move along energy flow lines as trajectories. In an analysis of the model of energy flow lines four didactical dimensions (didactical content, internal structure, present-day relevance and future significance) are investigated. It can be shown that a discussion of this model in physics at school can increase the meta-conceptional knowledge of the students about the models of light. On the other hand, this can promote deterministic conceptions and the Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics. But the question remains: Should the nature of light really be described as deterministic?
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