Description
Special Relativity Theory (SRT) is part of the pre-university level secondary education curriculum in the Netherlands, since the curriculum revision of 2014. Internationally, the interest for introducing secondary education students to Special Relativity Theory (SRT) is growing as well. However, the research on how to educate the abstract and counterintuitive concepts of SRT is scarce, especially in the domain of secondary education. The struggle that both secondary education and university level students have with SRT concepts is described as ‘Einsteinian branches grafted on Newtonian roots’ (Hewson, 1982). This struggle with relativistic concepts might be rooted in problems with the postulates, since all relativistic concepts are derived from them. We expect that secondary education students will also struggle with their initial understanding of the light postulate and that teaching the light postulate might be problematic. We therefore studied secondary education students pre-instructional reasoning with light propagation. In this talk we will address how these students reason with light propagation and what lessons we can learn from them for teaching the light postulate.| Period | 13 Apr 2018 |
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| Event title | Fysica 2018 |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | UtrechtShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | National |