ISBN : 9782923710976
Year of publication : 2016
Nombre de pages : 176
Langue : Anglais#French</trp-gettext#!trpEnglish#
This book is dedicated to the scientific challenges posed by certain questions related to natural and constructed phenomena to those working in the field of basic science education who are not specialists. The aim is to get them to confront their conceptions on a number of issues with which we interact daily, explicitly or implicitly, and which are related to the following themes, with a view to acquiring scientific language:
This confrontation will take the form of 99 questions whose solution does not require the use of mathematical formulas. Most of the questions are based on research carried out around the world on students' conceptions (primary and secondary), as well as on the author's own work with trainee primary school teachers over several years as part of a university course on science didactics.
Each theme is subdivided into three stages. In the first, the reader is invited to complete a multiple-choice questionnaire, developing his or her knowledge to the full. They will also be asked to analyze different answers to the same question. They will then compare their answers and analyses with those given in the second stage of the book. Finally, a summary of the concepts covered is presented.
After teaching at several universities, Abdeljalil Métioui is currently a professor in the Didactics Department at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He is the author and co-author of numerous scientific articles published in national and international journals. In the field of book publishing, Mr Métioui has published several chapters on the history of science in education. In the field of textbook publishing, he is co-author of the following books: (1) Apprentissage des sciences par l'expérimentation (Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2013/2014), (2) De l'histoire pour enseigner les sciences (pôle éditorial/Université de technologie de Belford-Montbéliard, 2013) and (3) Technologie de l'électricité (Chenelière/McGraw-Hill, 1996). He has also published the following book with Éditions Nouvelles (2013): Notions de base en sciences et en technologies. He is currently researching the history of physics in teaching and learning, and the universality of scientific conceptions among students from different societies and cultures.
