Teaching image formation by extended light sources: The use of a model derived from the history of science

Research in Science Education

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-73

  Dedes, Christos ^a   Ravanis, Konstantinos ^b  

^a Hellenic Secondary Education   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Destabilisation restructuring of pupils' representations; Didactics of physics; Geometrical optics; History of science

Indexed keywords

EID: 58549086613     PISSN: 0157244X     EISSN: 15731898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11165-007-9074-5     Document Type: Article

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