Getting to Know about Energy in School and Society

ISBN-13: 9780750700191 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 214 str.

Joan Solomon; Solomon Joan Solomon; Solomon Un Joan

Opis

Looking at education in and beyond school, Solomon considers the different meanings of energy and its effect on language and personality, the ancient and topical, cognitive growth and personal values, practical technology and abstract theory, the world of citizens and the world of schools. She highlights, through a range of practical examples, the difficultes in teaching about the concepts of energy and the problems facing school pupils who have to tackle the concept of energy in the everyday world and relate this to school text-book physics.

Spis treści

General Knowledge About Energy; Schools Of Thought On Children's Notions; children's ideas on energy; evidence from talking; learning as an extension of general knowledge; the formal domain of scientific knowledge; teaching about conservation; the social uses of energy; the defining technologies of energy.

O autorze

Joan Solomon