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In December 1970 the annual conference for Dutch physics teachers was devoted to Harvard
Project Physics. A few draft copies had circulated in the Netherlands and the lucky ones …

Background Creating coherence between school subjects mathematics and science and
making these school subjects meaningful are still topical challenges. This study investigates …

The integration of science and technology education has been a topic of worldwide debate.
However, the focus of the debate has been too much on the degree of integration of subjects …

Over the past twenty five years a number of trends in physics education at the secondary level
have developed. These include (1) more emphasis on technological and social aspects of …

In current approaches to teaching the topic of radioactivity, explanations in microscopic (nuclear)
terms are predominant. In fact, one of the reasons for including the topic in the …

Almost everywhere the topic of radioactivity is taught in the physics of chemistry classes of
secondary schools. The question has been raised whether the common approach of teaching …

In the Netherlands STS initiatives date back to the end of the 1960s. This chapter describes
the origin of these initiatives and outlines some influential projects in the field of STS for …

Most physics instructors do not consider the way their students understand concepts in
physics. They assume that once the students are able to quote some formulae to solve …