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Sin, Cristina – Educational Studies, 2015
This study argues that student-centred methods in the teaching of physics can be beneficial for students' enculturation into the discipline and into a physicist's profession. Interviews conducted with academics and students from six master degrees in physics in three different European countries suggest that student-driven classroom activities,…
Descriptors: Student Centered Curriculum, Scientists, Interpersonal Competence, Physics
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Wegerif, Rupert; Mercer, Neil – Language and Education, 1996
Proposes an approach to teaching reasoning through classroom conversation that integrates group work around computers into curriculum-related activities. The article examines research on collaborative learning and describes a program in which the computer is used to direct children's explicit, joint reasoning in curriculum-related activities. (79…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Cognitive Development, Computer Assisted Instruction