Ioana Caltun
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V. Alecsandri" High
School Iasi, 6600 Iasi, Romania
Daniela Baban
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Tehnoton" High
School Iasi, 6600 Iasi, Romania
Mihaela Ursulean,Vasile Ursulean
Country
School of Brodina, Department of Suceava, Romania
Ovidiu Florin Caltun
Faculty of Physics, "A.I.Cuza" University,
11 Blvd Carol I, 6600 Iasi, Romania |

GIREP Seminar
2003
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The electrical and magnetic phenomena lead an important role in daily
life. The pupils have or gain false representation on these phenomena.
Science Education and Physics Education curricula endeavor to induce
correct representation on electrical current in order to prevent
misconceptions and their dangerous behaviors. The correct conceptions
must represent solid and practical acquisitions for the pupils. The
students demonstrate learning difficulties with regard to developing
systemic reasoning, conceptual differentiation, establishing phenomenological
relations and linking different models. In the development of scientific
knowledge is a continuous interplay between experimental field, models
and theory. That shows the necessity to allowing and establishing
links between different levels of understanding of the reality. Such
creative process requires intellectual effort and is usually the
product of collaborative activity. Thus scientific models and theories
transcend personal idiosyncratic views which students hold as products
of everyday interaction with phenomena and ideas. They become part
of a shared culture implying a particular way of "seeing" nature.
Paper presents the results of few pathways in teaching electrical
current. The experimental activities were interpenetrated with model
demonstrations and sequences of computer assisted learning. The representations
of the students on electrical current in different learning stages
were explored by discussions, interviews and evaluation test.
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