The National Resource Centre for Physics Education and ... - …€¦ · universum at all scales. • This ”pussel" in not finished yet and no one knows how many pieces there are,

The National Resource Centre for Physics Education and Physics Education Research - a new research group at the physics department.URBAN ERIKSSON

Introduction

What do we do?• Nationellt ResursCentrum för Fysik (NRCF)

• Teacher Education

• Lund University Physic Education Research group (LUPER group)

LUPER

Teacher

education

NRCF

Introduction

Who are we?

• Urban Eriksson (Assoc. Prof.) Director • Ann-Marie Pendrill (Senior Professor) • Lukasz Michalak (PhD, Univ. adjunkt) • Moa Eriksson (PhD student) • Kim Svensson (PhD Student) • Charlotte Lagerholm (Lic. Student) • Jennie Lundqvist (Exa)

• Nationellt ResursCentrum för Fysik (NRCF)



NRCF

What is NRCF? • One of six national centres

• NRCF, KRC, NRCB, NCM, CETIS, NATDID • Support teachers at all school levels:

• Vision: Inspire, connect national and international • Goals: Professional development; simulate

methodological and didactical development; make visible physics in society; support communication between teachers and researchers; develop, review and spread teaching material (research informed); etc.

• Mission: Increase interest for physics and science; reform teaching physics, support professional development




NRCF

How’s financing NRCF? • Utbildningsdepartementet, • Skolverket, • LU and, • LTH




NRCF

What do we do?

Up till today: • Many resources on our web page: fysik.org • Built up over many years!

• Thanks, Ann-Marie! • Broad spectrum of activities and levels!




http://fysik.org

NRCF

What do we do?

For the future: • Focus on:

• ”Modern physics” • Astronomy • Learning the language of physics • Multidimensional thinking • Time




Teacher Education

We are involved in two teacher programs:

• Physics teacher program (the long program) • Handles both physics courses and physics

education courses. • Strongly connected to both physics and education

research • This program is subject to substantial change

• KPU (the short program) • We are responsible for the STEM education and

VFU.




LUPER

A ”new” research group at the Physics department.

• Physics Education Research (PER) (sv. Fysikdidaktisk forskning)

• Research! • Not physics education! • Research on teaching and learning physics. • Long tradition, originated in the USA in the -60s. • Developed and spread over the whole world.

• Two PER groups in Sweden (LU and UU) focusing primarily on university level students.

• Related fields: Astronomy Education Research, Biology Education Research, Chemistry Education Research, Mathematics Education Research, etc.




LUPER

What do we do?

• PER combine and integrate theories of learning, the knowledge and practices of physics, and teaching and learning experiences




LUPER

This representation illustrates the trinity what we see as a requirement for LUPER. Teaching the discipline involves both university level and school levels, Discipline Research gives invaluable insight into the disciplinary discourse and its hurdles, and Education Research by someone who understands the discipline from a teacher, researcher (knowledgeable in both the discipline and education) and student perspective.




LUPER

What do we do?

• PER combine and integrate theories of learning, the knowledge and practices of physics, and teaching and learning experiences.

• Theoretical framework: • Social Semiotics in Physics Education

• Learning physics is like learning a new language, built by the many semiotic resources (representations, tools and activities) used within the discipline.

• Communication using semiotic resources is prerequisite for learning.

• Publish in international journal such as Physical Review Physics Education Research, American Journal of Physics, European Journal of Physics, Physics Education, Science Education, etc.




LUPER

Research focus:

• Our contribution to the social semiotic ”pussel” involves disciplinary discernment of affordances from semiotic resources, and in particularly extrapolating three-dimensionality from 1D och 2D representations.

• The universum is 4D and to learn to understand physics/astronomi students need to come to appreciate and understand it as 4D. Here, space and time are concepts found hard for students understand.

• Simulations and animation are found to be useful tools to enhance learning and understanding of phenomena in the universum at all scales.

• This ”pussel" in not finished yet and no one knows how many pieces there are, but it progresses and its success can be seen in the increased use worldwide by the PER community.




Socia

lsemiotik

LUPER

Research: Urban Eriksson

• Leading the LUPER group and the development of Social Semiotics nationally and internationally.

• Work and collaborate internationally: • South Africa, Mexico, USA, Canada, Brasil, Australia,

Germany, etc. • Chair for the IAU WG for Astronomy Education research

and Methods • Co-editor for new the Astronomy Education Journal and

special issues of EJP on QM education research. • Scientific leader for the international Starspotting

experiment (citizen science project).




Socia

lsemiotik

LUPER

Research: Ann-Marie Pendrill

• Renowned leader of amusement park physics activities and research on physics and education

• Skating • and much, much more!




Socia

lsemiotik

LUPER

Research: Lukasz Michalak

• Focus on teaching physics for U.G. and the physics teacher program.




Socia

lsemiotik

LUPER

Research: Moa Eriksson

• Her research involves • students understanding of sign conventions (1D)

and • interactive engagement and the communication of

physics between students with working with circular motion (2D).

• She will defend her licentiate thesis before summer.




Socia

lsemiotik

LUPER

Research: Kim Svensson

• His research involves • programming and it affordances for learning physics • use of simulations for studying 2D phenomena • creating a mathematical theory for modelling

teaching physics

• He will defend his licentiate thesis 8 May.




Socia

lsemiotik

LUPER

What can we do for you?

• We plan to • organise didactical lunch meetings where

everyone who is interested in teaching physics can participate.

• offer courses in PE and PER for interested physicists.

• Be a dialog partner on educational issues. • Cooperate on research project that involve teaching

aspects, for example in nuclear physics (Hanno Perrey) • And more!




LUPER

What can you do for us?

• Talk to us on educational aspects of physics/astronomy!

• Discuss educational hurdles that you have experienced in you field of physics/astronomy.

• Let us into your class rooms to study teaching and learning by students!




LUPER

Thank you for your attention!

And most welcome to our offices in the L - corridor (L309-L312)!

Urban Eriksson [email protected]




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The National Resource Centre for Physics Education and ... - …€¦ · universum at all scales. • This ”pussel" in not finished yet and no one knows how many pieces there are,