
GIREP Seminar
2003
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Within the reformed curriculum of fundamental nine-year education a new
subject where intertwined biological, physical and chemical temes
are present, was introduced. Unfortunately, existent University programs
for teachers' eductaion allow for combination of two subjects only.
Typically, students choose mathematics and physics, physics and technology
or biology and chemistry. Biology students have a short physics and
chemistry course during the study, but both courses are meant as
an overview of a discipline and a background for understanding some
processes and methods during the study of the basic subject. But
physics students do not have biology and chemistry at all. After
diploma teachers of thata study one or two basic components of the
Science course do not posses adequate knowledge to teach also themes
from the missing one or two subjects. In order to get a licence for
teaching also the Science, teacher has to attend an additional training
porgram from the subject that was not studied. As an example – a
teacher of biology and chemistry has to do the training program in
physics, but a teacher of mathematics and physics has to the the
training in chemistry and biology.
In the contribution a short overview of the physics part of the Science
curriculum will be given. The structure of the Training program in physics
in an extension of 105 hours will be presented and a few examples of
the pedagogical and didactical approach for teaching of »currents« (material
flow, heat flow and charge flow) on the lower secondary level will be
demonstrated.
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