Conveners
Didattica e divulgazione in Fisica
- Sara Pirrone (INFN-Catania)
Within teacher training programmes devoted to philosophy teachers and physics teachers it is undoubtedly imperative to move beyond the "two cultures" dichotomy: Naturwissenschaften vs Geisteswissenschaften,. Between 1999 and 2015, working as a lecturer and teacher trainer at the SSIS Liguria (Scuola di Specializzazione per l'Insegnamento Secondario), and later at the TFA (Tirocinio Formativo...
Based on previous works such part of doctoral studies of one of us (VC) at the Lille University, France, a mixed with open-ended and closed-ended inquiring concerning Force Concept Inventory was arranged at Liceo scientifico "F. Sbordone" in Naples. Therefore, an analysis of understanding of physics topics starting from the students' difficulties and from their common sense knowledge was...
From the early time humans have always expressed the desire to explain the origin of cosmos through narrations. The representations of this desire were also tangible signs of the connection with the universe. They brought awareness of a world beyond their reach and often functioned as scientific observation tools and as three-dimensional calendars.
In the mid-20th century there was a change...
n the present work a teaching method is presented, concerning the way that a sample of undergraduate students is instructed about two basic experiments in the history of Physics: The Young’s double-slit (interference) experiment and the Davisson - Germer experiment, which essentially proved that particles (electrons) do behave like waves(de Broglie hypothesis). The research question behind...
Il Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Ettore Majorana” dell’Università di Catania è depositario di un prezioso patrimonio di “beni culturali scientifici”, che ha un grande valore storico oltre che scientifico.
La ricca collezione, che attualmente fa parte del Sistema Museale di Ateneo (SiMUA) da poco costituito, comprendendo al momento quasi 250 strumenti antichi restaurati, testimonia che...
In the 1960s the American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) took photos of the electromagnetic field for the Physical Science Study Committee project developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The project became a reform program in the teaching of physics that influenced the teaching of the subject all over the world, also reaching Italy thanks to Giampietro Puppi.
Abbott...
