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Learning difficulties and conceptual, methodological and axiological change (I)
2009
El trabajo se inicia mostrando la relacion que se establecio entre la filosofia de la ciencia, la psicologia del aprendizaje y la didactica de las ciencias, que lleva a la consolidacion de esta, en particular, con los estudios de las concepciones alternativas. Pero las dificultades de los estudiantes no pueden reducirse a las concepciones alternativas. Por eso es conveniente ampliar el concepto de dificultades de aprendizaje e incluir dificultades debidas al razonamiento de ‘sentido comun’, a las actitudes negativas de los estudiantes, etc. En consecuencia, un cambio exclusivamente conceptual no tiene en cuenta estas nuevas dificultades y son necesarios otros cambios. Pero sobre ellos exist…
Didactical Reconstructions in Knowledge Organization and Consolidation in Physics Teacher Education
2020
Physics teachers have an essential role in forming the attitudes and conceptions of future citizens towards science and technology, as well as in educating the future generations of scientists. Therefore, the physics teacher education must guarantee the best available education to pre-service physics teachers; sound knowledge of physics should be combined with a good understanding of the didactical and pedagogical aspects of teaching and learning. The situation is often that after university physics courses, the pre-service physics teachers’ knowledge is still quite fragmented and incoherent. They also often lack the concept formation perspective to physics knowledge. I discuss here a resea…
Special needs: a philosophical analysis
2009
This paper attempts to illuminate a central concept and idea in special education discourse, namely, ‘special needs’. It analyses philosophically what needs are and on what grounds they are defined as ‘special’ or ‘exceptional’. It also discusses whether sorting needs into ordinary and special is discriminatory. It is argued that individualistic tendency in special need rhetoric has serious shortcomings, although it does not inevitably lead to discrimination against those with ‘special needs’. Improving individuals’ capabilities as well as social conditions are the means to create societies and schools which are inclusive, and which put justice into practice.
Early science learning with a virtual tutor through multimedia explanations and feedback on spoken questions
2018
The purpose of this pilot study with a within-subject design was to gain a deeper understanding about the promise and restrictions of a virtual tutoring system designed to teach science to first grade students in Finland. Participants were 61 students who received six tutoring science sessions of approximately 20 min each. Sessions consisted of a sequence of narrated multimedia science presentations during which a virtual tutor explained science phenomena displayed in pictures. Narrated science explanations were followed by one or more multiple choice questions with immediate feedback about students’ choices and a possible second attempt, during which students reached 97% accuracy. A pretes…