Shaw-IAU Workshops by the OAE

Student´s alternative conceptions are persistent, and teachers should be aware, to address them.But teacher´s alternative conceptions can influence their students to elaborate alternative conceptions too. To prevent this from happening, it is necessary for teachers to be able to differentiate between scientific concepts and the most common alternative conceptions on the topics they teach in school.In this sense, an important step is to identify pre-service teacher´s alternative conceptions, to then develop didactic designs that facilitate the learning of scientific concepts, with the aim of pre-service teachers do not use alternative conceptions at the time they teach astronomy or science in schools.

Biography:

Leonor Huerta-Cancino is a professor of physics education research at Universidad de Santiago in Chile. She previously completed her masters in Astronomy at Universidad de Chile and PhD in Physics Education at the IPN, Mexico. Her research interest include astronomy and physics alternative conceptions, models of didactic integration with ICT, and active learning methods.

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