Investigative Science Learning Environment: When learning physics mirrors doing physics - Softcover

Etkina, Eugenia; Brookes, David T; Gorazd Planinsic

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1643277820 ISBN 13: 9781643277820

Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2019

Synopsis

The goal of this book is to introduce readers to a new philosophy of teaching and learning physics: Investigative Science Learning Environment, or ISLE (pronounced the same way as a small island). ISLE is an example of an intentional approach to curriculum design and learning activities. Intentionality means that the process through which the learning occurs is as crucial for learning as the final outcome or learned content. In ISLE, the learning process mirrors the practice of physics. This mirroring involves the process of the development of new ideas that are based on systematic patterns of experimentation and reasoning similar to that of physicists, and the collaborative nature of science and its continuous opportunities to improve one's work.

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About the Author

Eugenia Etkina is a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She holds a PhD in physics education from Moscow State Pedagogical University and has more than 35 years of experience teaching physics. Professor Etkina designed and now coordinates one of the largest programs in physics teacher preparation in the United States, conducts professional development for high school and university physics instructors, and participates in reforms to the undergraduate physics courses. In 1993 she developed a system in which students learn physics using processes that mirror scientific practice, Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE), which is described in this book. She is the lead author of the textbook College Physics: Explore and Apply and the Active Learning Guide. Professor Etkina has conducted over 130 workshops for physics instructors, and published over 100 peer-refereed articles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1643277820
• ISBN 13: 9781643277820
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136