“I’m not that important”: Barriers and bolsters to student agency during conversations about the intersections of physics and ethics
“I’m not that important”: Barriers and bolsters to student agency during conversations about the intersections of physics and ethics
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“我没那么重要”:在关于物理和伦理学交叉的对话中对学生能动性的障碍和支持
DOI:
10.1119/perc.2020.pr.gutmann
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发表时间:
2020
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通讯作者:
Alice Olmstead
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作者:
Brianne Gutmann;Egla Ochoa;Alice Olmstead
Physics has greatly impacted society, both in solving problems and perpetuating harm. Yet we rarely train physics students to grapple with their responsibilities to society by facilitating conversations about ethical issues. We developed and collected classroom video of a unit on the development of the atomic bomb. Here, we analyze a set of students’ small group interactions to reveal factors that enable and limit their engagement. Enabling factors include: (a) curricular materials that elicit students’ opinions, (b) opportunities for students to push each other to engage with the content, and (c) instructor facilitation that further pushes and validates student reasoning. Limiting factors include: (a) students’ discomfort around inexperience with ethical reasoning in physics, (b) students’ anticipation of their lack of agency in the physics community, and (c) students’ projections of their lack of agency in a historical context due to their race and gender. We consider the implications of these factors for instruction.
DOI:
10.1119/1.5055325
发表时间:
2018
期刊:
The Physics Teacher
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作者:
Hazari, Zahra;Cass, Cheryl
通讯作者:
Cass, Cheryl