Generative Role of Experiments in Physics and in Teaching Physics: A Suggestion for Epistemological Reconstruction |
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Authors: | Ismo T Koponen Terhi Mäntylä |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Physical Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland |
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Abstract: | In physics teaching experimentality is an integral component in giving the starting point of knowledge formation and conceptualization.
However, epistemology of experiments is not often addressed directly in the educational and pedagogical literature. This warrants
an attempt to produce an acceptable reconstruction of the epistemological role of experiments in physics by drawing insight
from history and philosophy of physics. Towards that end, the experiments’ role in the 19th-century physics is discussed.
We propose here a reconstruction, which is based on the idea that in epistemology of experiments the inductive-like generative justification of knowledge is central. A generative view makes it possible to retain those aspects of experiments which make them purposeful for learning
and can give a starting point for students’ own construction of knowledge. The reconstruction also helps to conceive the experiments
with their correct historical role and helps to bring back the generative use of experiments in teaching, which, after all,
has never vanished from the practice of physics. |
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