A newcomer’s spontaneous translanguaging in lower-secondary physics education

A Multilingual Perspective on Translanguaging

Translanguaging is a new term in bilingual education; it supports a heteroglossic language ideology, which views bilingualism as valuable in its own right. Some translanguaging scholars have questioned the existence of discrete languages, further concluding that multilingualism does not exist. I argue that the political use of language names can and should be distinguished from the social and s...

Preparing physics majors for secondary-level teaching: the education concentration in the Haverford College physics program

Mathematical modeling is also physics—interdisciplinary teaching between mathematics and physics in Danish upper secondary education

Mathematics plays a crucial role in physics. This role is brought about predominantly through the building, employment, and assessment of mathematical models, and teachers and educators should capture this relationship in the classroom in an effort to improve students’ achievement and attitude in both physics and mathematics. But although there are overwhelming amounts of literature on modeling...

The impact of physics on society and the mission of physics education in secondary schools

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A Procedure to Create a Pedagogic Conversational Agent in Secondary Physics and Chemistry Education

Pedagogic Conversational Agents are computer applications that can interact with students in natural language. They have been used with satisfactory results on the instruction of several domains. The authors believe that they could also be useful for the instruction of Secondary Physics and Chemistry Education. Therefore, in this paper, the authors present a procedure to create an agent for tha...